From: ifai645@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul C. Janzen) Subject: Re: 2 files with the same name in single directory, 0.99pl3, extfs Date: 30 Jan 1993 04:13:17 GMT
In article <ig25.728323415@fg70> ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>
>>To get two files with the same name you have to:
>> - be low on memory. The buffer cache has to suffer real bad. Get
>> - (at least) two processes trying to create the same file at once.
>At the time this happened, I had a 16 MB system with about 6 Meg of
>cache, no X running, and I only ran a single lpr - command at a time.
I had a similar experience: it was while I was still trying to fix lpr
(never did, but then again, I don't really need it). It's been a while
now, but I definitely had multiple files of the same name. I'm sure that
I was not low on system resources.
I'll try to recreate it later.
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