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Re: SunOS pathconf on hsfs filesystem crashes machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Myrto)
Sun Dec 4 06:43:02 1994
From: rwing!pat@ole.cdac.com (Pat Myrto)
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 94 0:19:27 PST
In-Reply-To: <199412040240.VAA12558@ultra.acs.ohio-state.edu>; from "Patrick Rabau" at Dec 3, 94 9:40 pm
"In the previous message, Patrick Rabau said..."
>
> Has anyone noticed the same problem on SunOS?
>
> Doing a pathconf(_PC_PIPE_BUF) on a cdrom file system mounted with type
> hsfs crashes SunOS 4.1.3_U1, both on a sun4c and a sun4m machine. This
> is run as an ordinary user!!
I heard its worse than that - its using pathconf on ANYTHING on the hsfs
filesystem, like to get pathname length, etc...
> [ ... deleted ... ]
>
> Any fixes?
Not that I have heard of. Solution I am aware of is to not have a
hsfs cdrom mounted on systems that have unfriendly users. Does this
occur if this is done on a hsfs mounted over NFS (does the NFS take
the call, and protect the calling system or the server system)? If not,
that might be a workaround...
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