ISC nfs crashes sun 4.03?
Roger Fujii
rmf at media.uucp
Wed Jul 25 15:14:49 AEST 1990
DeadHead at cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>The NFS on my unix i386 (2.0.2) seems to crash my sparc station from time
>to time.
>When the sparc (sun os 4.03) mounts a partition from the 386 box, once
>in a while the console would complain "rfs: attempt to read from non-file".
he he...
>And about every few weeks my entire screen would all of a sudden be filled
>with messages like that, and the only way to stop it is to halt the
>sparc with L1-A.
better yet, reboot the 386.
>It doesnt happen when the 386 box mounts a sparc partition.
This is because the SUN knows better....
>Has anybody seen the same prlblem? I wonder if it has been reported to ISC
>or Sun, or if I should file a bug report at both companies. (I never did
>find out what "attempt to read from non-file" actually means").
This is a bug with most likely the C-shell. You get that horrid message
when you try to open via nfs a directory like a file (instead of the
dirent method). If I remember correctly, you can duplicate this if you
put an NFS directory in you path. Solution: Don't do that! (or use
bsh...)
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