carvalho_at_if.ufrj.br said:
| The next step was to recompile the venus. Now the clients get crashed
| crashes with a sig 11 inside a glibs calls that manipulates strings.

It might be solved if you apply this patch.

Jan

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Index: coda/coda-src/venus/vproc_pathname.cc
diff -c coda/coda-src/venus/vproc_pathname.cc:4.13 coda/coda-src/venus/vproc_pathname.cc:4.14
*** coda/coda-src/venus/vproc_pathname.cc:4.13	Thu Mar  4 22:52:57 1999
--- coda/coda-src/venus/vproc_pathname.cc	Thu Mar 25 21:16:37 1999
***************
*** 412,419 ****
  
  void vproc::verifyname(char *name, int flags)
  {
!     char *ptr;
!     int   length = strlen(name);
  
      /* Disallow '.', '..', and '/' */
      if (flags & NAME_NO_DOTS)
--- 412,418 ----
  
  void vproc::verifyname(char *name, int flags)
  {
!     int length = strlen(name);
  
      /* Disallow '.', '..', and '/' */
      if (flags & NAME_NO_DOTS)
***************
*** 444,450 ****
      }
  
      /* Disallow names ending in anything like "@sys/@cpu" (@???). */
!     if ((flags & NAME_NO_EXPANSION) && (length >= 4) && (ptr[length-4] == '@'))
      {
  	u.u_error = EINVAL;
  	return;
--- 443,449 ----
      }
  
      /* Disallow names ending in anything like "@sys/@cpu" (@???). */
!     if ((flags & NAME_NO_EXPANSION) && (length >= 4) && (name[length-4] == '@'))
      {
  	u.u_error = EINVAL;
  	return;