dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (10/10/86)
Just for fun, I started up a couple of shells... 4 to be exact. I had three of them run the following line forever: echo a | cat | cat Since my shell uses temporary RAM files for pipes, three shells running the above line continuously caused files to be created and deleted on RAM: at a tremendous rate. Then, in the last shell, and while all this was running in the other shells, I CD'd to RAM: and had it continuously get directories. Some of the directories came out garbled (this is using standard DOS calls to get directories). Every once in a while I would get a totally garbled directory that went on forever repeating the same file entry (which was garbled in itself). None of this effected actual data-file creation/ deletion or storage, just the 'reading' of directories while all of that was going on. sounds like a small locking problem in RAM:. I haven't tried it on DF0/DF1 yet. In anycase, it's a very-easy situation to re-create. -Matt