From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 10:56: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654EB15A7D for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07942; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:53:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in cp(1) or a filesystem problem? In-Reply-To: <19990407202537.I2018@marder-1.localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, but shouldn't cp(1) give some kind of > warning/error in this situation instead of just hanging? (I left > it for >1 hour at one point). It's trying to copy the contents of the FIFO instead of the FIFO itself. I guess it depends on what you call 'correct behavior' in this instance. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message