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Subject: 3.1-R : writing file larger than floppy size to /dev/fd0 with dd causes system lock
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>Number:         11911
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       3.1-R : writing file larger than floppy size to /dev/fd0 with dd causes system lock
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 28 06:10:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 9 14:32:20 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 09 14:33:25 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Sergey Hlupnov
>Release:        3.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
UNI
>Environment:
FreeBSD anna.uniinc.msk.ru 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #1: Wed May  5 15:55:06 GMT 1999     sh@anna.uniinc.msk.ru:/usr/src/sys/compile/ANNAconfig  i386
>Description:
tar -czvf - * | dd bs=512k of=/dev/fd0 if=/dev/stdin
If result file size of tar is larger then a floppy, system
locks. User processes are locked. I can switch between local
consoles though.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. Put some files into /dir. Total size should be ~ 1.6 mb.
2. tar -cf - /dir | dd bs=512k of=/dev/fd0 if=/dev/stdin
Enjoy

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: iedowse 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 9 14:32:20 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  

Assumed to be fixed, since this relates to block devices, which 
no longer exist in recent releases. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11911 
>Unformatted:
