Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cbmvax!carolyn
From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: "RAM Disk:" lock 1 bug
Message-ID: <3815@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 15:02:54 GMT
References: <8805150351.AA19130@jade.berkeley.edu> <5512@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <5512@cup.portal.com> doug-merritt@cup.portal.com writes:
>I just noticed that "RAM Disk:" is flawed; if you do (e.g.)
>      dir "RAM Disk:"
>
>it hangs (forever, I think). It turns out that the DeviceList
>entry for "RAM Disk" has a lock pointer of 1, which sounds like
>a no-no to me.
>
>Is this old news? I didn't remember hearing about it before.

It is old news.  1.2 ram-handler will probably always cause these problems.
The problem seems fixed in 1.3 ram-handler which has a real volume node
with the name "RAM Disk".

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