Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:15:25 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) File descriptors-do I have Bad Breath? Message-ID: <199705130243.TAA00297@train.tgci.com>
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Ok, I know when I'm beat! Must be the way I comb my hair! ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:17:16 +0000 Subject: (Fwd) File descriptors-do I have Bad Breath? Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com Priority: normal Apologies if this is off-topic for freebsd-fs, but I either have very bad breath or am asking silly questions that don't deserve to be answered on Questions. Could someone take a look at my questions and at least tell me which manual RTFM refers to? :) ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Self <chaos> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: File descriptors Reply-to: chaos@tgci.com Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:27:28 I'm getting some bad file descriptor errors that prevented me from compiling a new kernal (I'm new...), and got some help here about that. But I'm not clear about what causes bad file descriptors or even what they are/do. I've searched the docs, man hier, man fd and am still not clear. Do they indicate the state a file is in? Open, writable, locked? What constitutes a bad one? Is it caused by bad hardware? Disks? Controllers? I'm had stuff like this on more that one occasion: find: /usr/include/machine: Bad file descriptor find: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/loop.c: Bad file descriptor find: /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/obstack.c: Bad file descriptor etc Last time I had to use clri and some other stuff to fix it. fsck doesn't take care of it. I am going to replace the IDE 1.2GB Maxtor with a Seagate scsi for this low volume webserver( and move it from 2.1.7 to 2.2.1--a good idea???). Will this fix the cause? Is a bad disk causing this? I haven't done a low-level format, but plan on it later. Should/will this show up anything? Could someone explain or point me to some documentation on this? Ciao, Riley
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