pmax ultrix 3.0 rcp bug

Chris Hill hill at faline.bellcore.com
Tue Aug 8 07:08:31 AEST 1989


In article <> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <8908031904.AA24094 at garnet.berkeley.edu> rusty at GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
>> Does anybody know if the rcp bug in Ultrix 3.0 on the DS3100 where
>> when you do an rcp between two remote machines it comes back with
>> "Segmentation fault" (but doesn't core dump)?  Here's an example of
>> what I mean:
>> 
>> machine1% rcp machine2:file machine3:file
>
>Anybody try this?  It works fine on VAX architecture...
>
Where	a=uVAX II
	b=3100
	c=3100
On system a
	rcp b:file c:file
works OK
On system b
	rcp a:file c:file
	rcp c:file a:file
	rcp c:file b:file
	rcp b:file c:file
all fail with Segmentation fault
but
	rcp c:file .
	rcp file b:
both work OK

Thank goodness we never use that command!



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