NFS FIFO bug

Maarten Litmaath maart at cs.vu.nl
Wed Mar 22 16:02:00 AEST 1989


Chdir to an NFS-mounted file system and type (in sh)

	while :
	do
		mknod p p
		yes > p &
		rm p < p
	done

After a few loops a kernel panic (bus error) will occur.
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