Re: linux crashed with unchecked malloc ??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:14:44 +0000 (GMT)

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> Apart from that how did the ext2 fs got corrupted becuase of a memory
> leak. I defintely did not expect that. It was a deliberate code to see how
> linux handles it , but fs corruption was some thing that blew the hell out of
> me. I ran fsck to fix it , but fsck did not detect any inconsistencies. So I
> had to reinstall linux again.

If fsck found no inconsistencies its very very unlikely there was an error
on the file system metadata.

Alan

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