linux-kernel - Re: Bug in current -git tree causing dbus and gnome to chew up cpu time

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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:03:43 -0800
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hch@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in current -git tree causing dbus and gnome to chew up cpu time

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 14:39, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday February 13, greg@...ah.com wrote:
> > This causes the following to just loop over and over, incrementing the
> > pid:
> >
> > gnome-vfs-daemo(8914):
>
> That's odd.  getcwd returning an empty string.
> I can only see that happening if you do the equivalent of
>    chdir("/");
>    chroot("/somewhere");
>    getcwd(buf,sizeof(buf));

The other case I'm aware of is this:

  $ mount -o loop image /mnt
  $ cd /mnt
  $ umount -l /mnt
  $ /bin/pwd

Andreas
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