[1535] in Athena Bugs
attach/detach bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Dec 14 23:40:25 1988
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 88 23:39:48 EST
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: drmorris@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[1532]
>% detach -f athenadoc
>athenadoc: Directory /mit/athenadoc appears to already be unmounted
>athenadoc: detached
>% attach -f athenadoc
>athenadoc: Already mounted, continuing...
>athenadoc: NFS mounted NESSUS.MIT.EDU:/mit/lockers/athenadoc on
>/mit/athenadoc (read-write)
>% ls -l /mit/athenadoc
>total 0
>%
> This problem also occurred with the sipb filesystem on dialup, and
>with a user account on dialup (eredell and erspert). The above problem
>occured on M1-142-1. Is this the strcmp problem again? This sipb problem
>occured on dialup after 12/02, the date when jik fixed this bug.
The bug you have illustrated here is completely different from the
ereidell/erspert bug which I fixed on dialup. That bug was with a
case insensitive string comparison function which was broken in
attach. This bug has to do with munged attachtab and mtab files.
This bug is known.
jik
