spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) (07/02/85)
Here's a good one for you. I'd like to know if anyone else has
encountered this one before -- it might save me from bashing my head
against the keyboard some.
We're running 4.2 BSD (the BRL version) on all our Vaxen. If I create
a file whose name begins with a ":" and then try to "cat" it, it works
on the 780 but gives a "file: Error 0" message on the 750. This also
happens on another site's 750 (in fact, it was discovered there --
credit to tas@dcc1).
Does this happen to anyone else out there? Is this a well known and
beloved bug? Am I hallucinating again? Anyone know a fix?
--
Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafspaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) (07/04/85)
Thanks for the responses. The problem seems to lie with the BRL 3.0
distribution. Their version of "cat", as shipped, has the bug
in it. If we recompile /bin/cat, we get something lots smaller
than the BRL distribution version, with a much different set of
embedded character strings, and which doesn't have the bug.
The reason it didn't happen on our 780 was because someone else
loaded the standard 4.2 /bin/cat on top of the BRL version (from tape)
a) without telling me, and b) without setting the modification time
to something recent. Thus, I got misled.
Thanks for all the responses. It's fixed now. If you're running a
BRL distribution, check your /bin/cat command for odd behavior.
We now return you to your net, already in progress.
--
Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafsean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (07/09/85)
In article <406@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) writes: >We're running 4.2 BSD (the BRL version) on all our Vaxen. If I create >a file whose name begins with a ":" and then try to "cat" it, it works >on the 780 but gives a "file: Error 0" message on the 750. This also >happens on another site's 750 (in fact, it was discovered there -- >credit to tas@dcc1). We're running BRL Unix (4.2) on a 750 and don't have that problem. -- - Sean Casey UUCP: sean@ukma.UUCP or - Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean - University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA