Weird Problem with cat
mcneill
mcneill at eplrx7.UUCP
Thu Nov 17 01:18:26 AEST 1988
Here's a weird one folks:
As superuser on one of our machines I have this problem sometimes:
eplrx7 {root} % cat ~mcneill/.login
cat: write error bad file number
eplrx7 {root} % cat /u3/mcneill/.login
---- works fine ----
eplrx7 {root} % exit
(eplrx7:20) cat ~mcneill/.login
---- works fine ----
su again....
eplrx7 {root} % cat ~mcneill/.login
---- works fine ----
The problem is not confined to ~mcneill/.login. It happens with different
~users trying to cat different files. The problem seems to have something
to do with expansion of ~. The operating system is SUNOS 3.5 running yellow
pages.
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Keith D. McNeill | E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
uunet!eplrx7!mcneill | Experimental Station
(302) 695-7395 | P.O. Box 80357
| Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0357
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