Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:44:41 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: repeatable lockup (pipe related?) Message-ID: <200003232244.OAA05041@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20000323222149.C87103@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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: .SH foo, bar, baz
:
:and then a lot of junk text (I appended /etc/rc and /etc/rc.network). Then,
:when I do
:
: nroff -ms foo.ms 2>&1 | less
:
:and quit 'less' straight away, the whole system seems to lockup. ^T
:worked (sometimes), and showed troff using lots of system time (no user
:time). ping from another host worked, ctrl-alt-esc dropped into DDB ok,
:but that was about all. (ctrl-alt-del didn't work.)
:
:Of course, when it first happened I wasn't trying to process /etc/rc*
Awweeesome :-)
I was able to repeat it. Should be trivial to fix... obviously a bug
in the pipe code somewhere. I'm working on it.
-Matt
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