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On Mon, 15 May 1995, Daniel Clar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of my user has discovered the following problem on a Digital Unix 3.0
> computer.
>
> He has two files f1 and f2 and issues the command :
>
> cat f1 f2 > f1
> the answer is immediate :
>
> cat: input t1 is output
>
> but with the command :
>
> cat f2 f1 > f1
> there is no answer and when he uses CTRL-C he sees that there is a RECURSIVE
> concatenation of the file f1 to itself.
>
> The users's directory is on a NFS mounted file system and the server is an
> Ultrix 4.4 computer.
>
> I've tried the same commands on a local filesystem and there is no problem. So
> it seems that NFS has an influence on the bug in 'cat'.
>
> Daniel
>
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Received on Mon May 15 1995 - 13:33:49 NZST