Bug in tmp/swap sharing?

[Tatjana Heuser]

dt4100c at medtron.medtronic.com (Derek Terveer) writes:

>I discovered, quite by accident, that the following sequence of commands
>on a sparc station 1+ running 4.1 with tmp "sharing" swap will crash the
>machine:

>user$ cd /tmp
>user$ mkdir b
>user$ chmod 555 b
>user$ mkdir b/1
"mknod /tmp/crash p" succeeds as well :-)

This is fixed in SunOS 4.1.1, for 4.1 there's a patch available.