Bugtraq: Re: udp packet storms - ping death

[karl () bagpuss demon co uk (Karl Strickland)]

> ObBug: if you use the SunOS tmpfs, try
>
> cd /tmp; /usr/etc/mknod fifo p; ln fifo link; ls -ClFg link fifo
>
> ...but not at peak hours!
>
> Sun knows about it and after a year, there's still no fix.  [As
> far as I know -- if there's one, I'd love to hear of it, so I can
> tell the computer center here to add the darn thing: after hearing
> of this one, they hacked the kernel and removed the mkfifo and
> mknod S_IFIFO system calls. <sigh>]
been looking into this & i know what the problem is - it happens on any
special node, not just fifo's.

sys/tmpfs/tmp_vnodeops.c needs fixing, but I dont have the source.

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