> Warning: This program will cause unpredictable behavior of the whole > system!!! > > While killing this program kernel will print many messages: >VFS: iput: trying to free free inode I think the main error here is the way Linux handles this particular condition. Since the kernel has encountered an error conditions which indicates an error it cannot recover from it should panic. It should not continue, as that makes matters worse (making a denial of service attack into a data corruption/security problem) You should always check for errors, but you must make sure you handle them properly. Casper
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