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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Shawn Starr <Shawn.Starr@sh0n.net>
Cc: lkm <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:21:58 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15264.982394518@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:12:40 CDT." <3A8E2467.FC6FE1B4@sh0n.net>

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:12:40 -0500, 
Shawn Starr <Shawn.Starr@sh0n.net> wrote:
> grep -r "216.234.235.46" *
>Im using grep in /etc and its just waiting....

grep -r follows symlinks and tries to open named pipes.  If you have
qmail installed then /etc/qmail is a symlink to /var/qmail and named
pipe /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger lives down there.  grep hangs trying
to open the pipe.  Not a reiserfs problem, just a badly designed
application.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-17  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-17  7:12 [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS Shawn Starr
2001-02-17  7:17 ` [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS - More info Shawn Starr
2001-02-17  7:21 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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