Can you please boot with the older kernel, and post the getdents
part of ktrace for that case?
I was not able to reproduce this with very simple program yet.

Jaromir


Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:
> Hello, folks.
> 
> I upgraded my source tree to 2002/05/11, from 2002/03/26 -current
> (both 1.5ZC).  After having booted with a new kernel and having
> started a ful build of the source tree, I tried to run Netscape
> Communicator 4.77 for Linux but it would draw the credits and hang.
> A ktrace showed an endless loop of events as below.
> 
> 	 25173 netscape CALL  #220 (unimplemented getdents64)(0x16,0x90c8430,0x200)
> 	 25173 netscape RET   #220 (unimplemented getdents64) 464/0x1d0
> 	 25173 netscape CALL  llseek(0x16,0,0x78000000,0xbfbfc2c8,0)
> 	 25173 netscape RET   llseek 0
> 	 25173 netscape CALL  #220 (unimplemented getdents64)(0x16,0x90c8430,0x200)
> 	 25173 netscape RET   #220 (unimplemented getdents64) 464/0x1d0
> 	 25173 netscape CALL  llseek(0x16,0,0x78000000,0xbfbfc2c8,0)
> 	 25173 netscape RET   llseek 0
> 
> After having built and installed current userland, ktrace output
> changed slightly (not complaining about an unimplementes syscall.
> 
> 	 20714 netscape CALL  getdents64(0x16,0x90c8430,0x200)
> 	 20714 netscape RET   getdents64 472/0x1d8
> 	 20714 netscape CALL  llseek(0x16,0,0x78000000,0xbfbfbe20,0)
> 	 20714 netscape RET   llseek 0
> 
> I checked, and file descriptor 0x16 is my home directory, which is
> NFS-mounted.  My Linux libraries were taken from RedHat 7.1, and they
> used to work very fine before this upgrade.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?
> 
> -- 
> 	Pappires
> 
> ... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.
> 


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