Re: Loopback device support, kernel 2.4.14, can not compile ?

J Sloan (jjs@lexus.com)
Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:25:38 -0800


volodya@mindspring.com wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, erasmo perez wrote:
>
> > hello
> >
> > i think i have found an error in the kernel, i think ...
> >
> > when a i try to compile the 2.4.14 with the option:
> >
> > Loopback device support
>
> Get 2.4.15-pre1 patch - it fixes this.

Yes, 2.4.15-pre1 fixes that, and somewhat works -

However 2.4.15-pre1 has some other issues.

For instance, in 2.4.15-pre1, I can reliably hang
my machine with the following simple command,
as a non-root user:

ssh localhost

Is that bizzare or what? I've never seen
that type of bug in Linux before -

cu

jjs

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