Does anyone have a clue about why performing a stat() on a file would cause it to lock up? I was getting some strange behavior from my system in that my KDE Konsole would lock up sometimes when performing certain operations such as find, ps, ls, stat, etc. -- basically anything that touched certain files. So, I tried using the command 'strace ps -ef' to find out what was hanging up the command, and discovered that the trace locked up on a stat64() call. It was attempting to stat /dev/tty1 which is a soft link to /dev/vc/1. If I tried to stat or even list any of the tty* files, I got the same result. Note that this problem persists not only in Konsole, but in any terminal, including the Linux virtual consoles. It's a really strange problem, so any ideas to figure it out would be great.
ROB
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