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Subject: Re: [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS 
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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.