Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jun 1998 21:08:42 +0100 (BST) | | From | Chris Evans <> | | Subject | Re: More info on 104 oops [probably procfs bug] | |
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> Quite a while back I added a mechanism to /proc so that modules can have
> their use counts incremented when a /proc directory is being referenced. This
> prevents the problems with having a module removed while a shell or other
> application is sitting in the module's /proc directory.
Hmm, it was about the time of the addition of this mechanism, that I
started to be able to completely screw the kernel with "rm -rf /proc" ;-)
rm -rf /proc still causes oopses hung processes and other unpleasantries.
Cheers
Chris
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