Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!cjohnson
From: cjohnson@unisoft.UUCP (Christopher Lyle Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Can 'cp' kill a system if the disk is full??
Message-ID: <905@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 06:35:14 GMT
References: <460@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <92@iravcl.ira.uka.de> <937@unmvax.unm.edu> <10224@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: cjohnson@binary.UUCP (Christopher Lyle Johnson)
Organization: UniSoft Systems, 6121 Hollis St., Emeryville, CA 94608
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Summary: It depends.


Actually, on some systems there is a problem when the
/usr file system fills up.  If the errordaemon attempts
to log errors to /usr/ and the console is sufficiently
slow, the kernel printf's may swallow the whole cpu.

It isn't pretty.

					cj*

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