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[Belxjander Serechai <belxjander_serechai AT yahoo.co.nz>]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 12:09 +0000, Eric Schabell wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> I have submitted a bug but got no response so posting the problem here
> (bug #7364):
> 
>  Casting stable version 5.2.1 lease to configure phase looping in: 
>  
>  <snip> 
>  checking whether getcwd is declared... yes 
>  checking whether getcwd properly handles paths longer than PATH_MAX... 
>   
>  this continues on my box until /tmp (a tmpfs of 512MB) fills up with
>  the file coreutils.iw. 
>    
>  I am running amd64 (in 32 bit mode, so nothing exciting to see here)
>  with 2.6.7 kernel. 
>     
>  No idea what it is doing, but it is maxing the cpu... marked as
>  critical as this seems to be rather crutial spell (part of basesystem).

yes, kill the process that is the test program for this and it will
continue...

this is the coreutils killer I personally experienced...
  I am still unsure as to what triggered and also what bypassed this
being a problem for me

Belxjander