Subject: Re: Bug involving mdir
From: Stephen Edie (sedie@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 11:01:28 MST
Hmm, I just 'bravely' tried it on my system without a floppy disk (or a
floppy drive for that matter) and it did what I would expect it to do.
"Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device\nCannot initialize 'A:'"
Did you have a floppy disk in the drive when you typed, err mistyped it?
Stephen
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
"The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Jim Cole wrote:
> While attempting to create a directory, I had a finger glitch and ended up
> typing mdir <somedir> rather than mkdir <somedir>. The result was that it
> completely toasted the system. Everything locked up rock solid. I went to
> another room and tried to log into the machine with no luck. When I got
> back, the machine was rebooting.
>
> Is this a known issue? Seems a pretty stiff penalty for a typo as a
> non-root user ;) Good thing I don't actually need mtools.
>
> This problem occurred on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) installed with CS 1.1
> and the "experimental" 2.2.12 kernel released for YellowDog.
>
> Linux freyr.yggdrasill.net 2.2.12-2 #1 Fri Oct 8 18:07:08 MDT 1999 ppc
> unknown
>
>
> Jim
>
>
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