On 11 Oct you wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:22:56PM +0100, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> > I'm afraid I have the same problems as Vincent: random freezes that
> > require the machine to be reset. IIRC it was always scripts that had
> > been run at least once since the last boot.
>
> Vincent mentioned rafs. Are you (Steve) using rafs?
Yes. IIRC the scripts were loading data files or saving output to raFS. The
files created often had names longer than 10 chars.
> Generally (Vincent, Steve):
> Is there anything in common with scripts that freeze?
> (ie do they call system(), use ``, open "|" etc to run child programs)
None of the above. They all just opened a text file using open, then created
a series of further files based on the information.
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