Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 27 Jun 1996 11:41:37 +0200 | From | (Henning Schmiedehausen) | Subject | Re: Recipe for disaster |
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boland@sci.kun.nl (Michiel Boland) writes:
>I don't know what's wrong, except that of course the client >should close the socket. But I would not think that bad code >such as this should actually lock up a machine.
>Pressing shift-ScrollLock several times reveals that the kernel >is apparently in some sort of network buffer allocating loop.
>The crash occurs with at least four different kernels. For what >it's worth, it also happens with 1.99.8 and 1.99.12. It does not >happen with 1.2.13 (with 1.2, the client is blocked forever when >it calls connect() the 2nd time).
Right after finishing the client, this also happens with 1.3.100.
I still could ping my machine and got a 'connected to host' message from a telnet to the machine but no more console switching, shutting down or stuff. Definitely introduced before 1.3.100.
Ciao Henning -- Henning Schmiedehausen ...side by side in orbit... around a fairer SUN. barnard@forge.franken.de http://www.franken.de/users/forge/henning
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