[bug #29809] creating a firmlink loop results in memory exhaustion

[Justus Winter]

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                 Summary: creating a firmlink loop results in memory
exhaustion
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: teythoon
            Submitted on: Thu 06 May 2010 05:09:09 PM GMT
                Category: Hurd
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: Every Time
              Size (loc): None
         Planned Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00
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Details:

cd /tmp ; touch bla ; settrans -f bla /hurd/firmlink bla ; ls bla

* wait some time, play around with vmstat or the like
* and the pager will start to flood the console with

(default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging errors





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