Re: oops in 2.5.68-mm1

[Helge Hafting]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 06:58:33PM +0300, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
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> -r--------    1 root     root        48281 Apr 11 21:05 Cats & Dogs (RO).txt
> -r--------    1 root     root     730341376 Apr 11 21:04 Cats And Dogs.avi
> 
> I typed less Cats<tab>, and then &<tab>, and here it was stuck, and the 
> kernel oopsed. If I type less Cats<tab>, and then \&<tab>, it works, but 
> without the \ in front of the &, the shell gets stuck in D state.

Typing 
<any command> &<TAB>
gives the shell and the fs some work to do.  The "&" ends one
command and starts a new one (similiar to ";") so typing
nothing more after "&" and pressing <TAB> makes the shell search the entire
path and consider all the commands available.
(Press tab some more times and see the list, 2078 possibilities
in my case. :-)  This sort of thing can easily
take some time (in D state) if your PATH includes network drives.

Helge Hafting