Re: [PROBLEM]: grep hanging with ReiserFS

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 02:21:58 EST

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 02:12:40 -0500,
Shawn Starr <Shawn.Starr@sh0n.net> wrote:
> grep -r "216.234.235.46" *
>Im using grep in /etc and its just waiting....

grep -r follows symlinks and tries to open named pipes. If you have
qmail installed then /etc/qmail is a symlink to /var/qmail and named
pipe /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger lives down there. grep hangs trying
to open the pipe. Not a reiserfs problem, just a badly designed
application.

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