creeping fsck bug with System V FIFO

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <6607 at venera.isi.edu> cracraft at venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
| I have a System V machine; When I do an fsck, it reports
| Possible file size error, and then "I=nnnn" where the
| inode is named.

Some versions of fsck report this for a FIFO, and also for a sparse
file, such as some forms of database and core dumps. I'm not sure I've
ever seen a case in which there really was an error with that error
message, but I suppose that there must be SOME case.
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