wierd uucico bug

Stuart Levy slevy at uf.msc.umn.edu
Sat Dec 10 16:17:19 AEST 1988


We occasionally see something that might cause those symptoms.  Once in a
while, it seems as though the cached text for some binary will be
corrupted.  The *file* will appear fine, but everybody on the system will
find that that binary won't run, dumps core or whatever.

It can be "fixed" by renaming the real binary & copying the renamed binary
to its usual name.  Since the new binary is a different inode, those
cached pages don't apply to it.  After a while (when all the executing
copies exit?) the cached pages go away and the old binary will work too,
so you can rename it back.

	Stuart Levy



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