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Re: Anybody experience this type of Dos before?
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- Subject: Re: Anybody experience this type of Dos before?
- From: smurf@noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
- Date: 12 Oct 1998 14:11:52 +0200
- Newsgroups: dist.glibc
- Organization: noris network GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG
- References: <E0zSOTS-0001I5-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> <199810112230.TAA02768@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> <908189665.28718@noris.de>
- Xref: noris.net dist.glibc:6334
> > > Its not /dev/* but /dev/*/*. And it does look like it is loading
> > > modules like one for this /dev/aztcd. Anyway only bash seems to be
> > > affected.
>
IMHO, bash should do the stat() call itself before calling opendir().
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