Sticky bit crashed my DS3100?
Daniel S. Riley
riley at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
Sun Jan 20 10:13:42 AEST 1991
In article <7301 at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
> I have a DS3100 which mounts a DS5400's filesystems via NFS. I set
>the sticky bit on an executable on the 5400, and then executed it from the
>DS3100. The DS3100 immediately panicked and crashed.
>
> This is under Ultrix 4.0. What happened?
I've seen this too, under 3.1 and 4.0. I think Ultrix gets upset if
you change the sticky bit on an image which is already in the text
table--either a currently running image, or an image which had been
run recently and is still in the cache.
I thought the BSD documentation had some procedure which somehow
forces the image to be flushed from the text table--but I don't have
the docs handy to check it.
-Dan Riley (riley at theory.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University
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