[PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS

[PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS

[Shawn Starr]

 grep -r "216.234.235.46" *


...waiting...

./debugps | more
USER       PID COMMAND          WCHAN
root         1 init             do_select
....
root         7 [kreiserfsd]     -
.....

root     28438 grep -r 216.234. pipe_wait

Im using grep in /etc and its just waiting....
it should have finished.

Shawn.

Re: [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS - More info

[Shawn Starr]

Linux coredump 2.4.2-pre3 #1 Fri Feb 9 20:57:39 EST 2001 i586 unknown
Kernel modules         2.3.21
Gnu C                  2.95.2
Gnu Make               3.79.1
Binutils               2.10.1
Linux C Library        2.2.1
Dynamic linker         ldd (GNU libc) 2.2.1
Procps                 2.0.7
Mount                  2.10r
Net-tools              1.58
Console-tools          0.2.3
Sh-utils               2.0j
Modules Loaded         nls_cp437 vfat fat

Shawn Starr wrote:

>  grep -r "216.234.235.46" *
>
> ...waiting...
>
> ./debugps | more
> USER       PID COMMAND          WCHAN
> root         1 init             do_select
> ....
> root         7 [kreiserfsd]     -
> .....
>
> root     28438 grep -r 216.234. pipe_wait
>
> Im using grep in /etc and its just waiting....
> it should have finished.
>
> Shawn.
>
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Re: [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS

[Keith Owens]

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.