Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:50:58 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Tom Alsberg <alsbergt@cs.huji.ac.il>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (bug?) panic in union filesystem - file/. Message-ID: <20030615155058.GA1405@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030615112920.GA39687@cs.huji.ac.il> References: <20030615112920.GA39687@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2003, Tom Alsberg wrote: > I recently stumbled upon a crash in the union filesystem. It seems > that when trying to stat "<file>/." where file is a regular > (non-directory) file in a union mounted filesystem, the system will > panic. > > I first noticed this as an effect of zsh (Z shell)'s tab completion, > which after I checked, tries to lstat "<file>/." if there are no other > completions and the file exists, to see if it is a directory with > other files in it which it should try to complete (I do not know why > they chose to do it this way). > > It seems like a bug in the union filesystem to me. I can reproduce it > on both 4.8-STABLE and 5.1-CURRENT. This problem is on my TODO list, but it may take me a while before I have a chance to look at it. It would help me to keep track of it if you could file what you just said (verbatim, even) as a followup to kern/53004, though. Thanks for investigating the issue!
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