Bug in tmp/swap sharing?

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From: Tatjana Heuser
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 12:32

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dt4100c@medtron.medtronic.com (Derek Terveer) writes:

>I discovered, quite by accident, that the following sequence of commands
>on a sparc station 1+ running 4.1 with tmp "sharing" swap will crash the
>machine:

>user$ cd /tmp
>user$ mkdir b
>user$ chmod 555 b
>user$ mkdir b/1
"mknod /tmp/crash p" succeeds as well :-)

This is fixed in SunOS 4.1.1, for 4.1 there's a patch available.

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Subject: Bug in tmp/swap sharing?
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