In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just stumbled upon the following. If I do > ># cd / ># grep -r * stuff > >it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The >last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device >files, but maybe it's just me...
Well, if grep opens /dev/port, /dev/mem and /dev/kmem it is mucking around in your system memory and doing lots of direct i/o to your hardware, so it's not really strange that that hangs the machine .. Just Don't Do That ... Mike. -- Cistron Certified Internetwork Expert #1.
