loopback broken in 1.99.7

Jonathan H. Pickard (marxmarv@cris.com)
Fri, 24 May 1996 03:53:59 -0700 (PDT)

The loopback device in 1.99.7 puts processes who attempt to close it into a
coma (using mount-2.5j). It's possible to use losetup to get status on it
and to attach a file to it, and it's possible to read the data on the other
end of it, but once anything tries to close it, the process freezes and
hangs forever in a state like (after the attached xterm is killed off)

9311 ? DW 0:00 (losetup)

Is it my breath?

-jhp

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brw-rw-rw- 1 root punk 7, 0 May 24 03:14 /dev/loop0
brw-rw-rw- 1 root punk 7, 1 May 24 03:14 /dev/loop1

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# cat /proc/modules
loop 2 7
affs 8 1
sr_mod 4 1
sound 13 0

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CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

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# Loadable module support
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CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y

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# General setup
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CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M486=y

#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

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# Please see drivers/block/README.ide for help/info on IDE drives
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE=y

#
# Additional Block Devices
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD=y

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# Networking options
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CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y

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# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
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CONFIG_INET_RARP=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y

#
#
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# SCSI support
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CONFIG_SCSI=y

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# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
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# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
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# SCSI low-level drivers
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CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE=y

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# Network device support
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CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m
CONFIG_PLIP=m
CONFIG_PPP=y

#
# CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
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CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL2=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_WD80x3=y

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CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
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CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
CONFIG_AFFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y

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# Character devices
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CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m

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CONFIG_AUDIO=y
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DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536

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# Kernel hacking
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