Comment by AceJohnny2
11 years ago
I was looking for another famous sysadmin story, where the guy who also happens to be a top Linux developer (so maybe Alan Cox?) rescues a deeply broken Linux system where even glibc is no longer accessible by manipulating inodes in a running process. Or something.
Over the years, my Google-fu has failed me. Any clue? :)
http://www.lug.wsu.edu/node/414 is what you are looking for.
That's pretty damn close (and impressive!), but I don't think that was it :)
For one thing, I'm pretty certain the story involved recovering a deleted file's inode via some other running process's FDs.
That's a classic.
Best I can claim is zmodem transfers of uunecoded packages over a PLIP link as I tried to get ethernet support up on an old but fairly reliable box.