Re: SunOS pathconf on hsfs filesystem crashes machine

[rwing!pat () ole cdac com (Pat Myrto)]

"In the previous message, Patrick Rabau said..."
> Has anyone noticed the same problem on SunOS?
>
> Doing a pathconf(_PC_PIPE_BUF) on a cdrom file system mounted with type
> hsfs crashes SunOS 4.1.3_U1, both on a sun4c and a sun4m machine.  This
> is run as an ordinary user!!

I heard its worse than that - its using pathconf on ANYTHING on the hsfs
filesystem, like to get pathname length, etc...

> [ ... deleted ... ]
>
> Any fixes?

Not that I have heard of.  Solution I am aware of is to not have a
hsfs cdrom mounted on systems that have unfriendly users.  Does this
occur if this is done on a hsfs mounted over NFS (does the NFS take
the call, and protect the calling system or the server system)?  If not,
that might be a workaround...

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