system lockup

Dan Jones djones at jcc-one.UUCP
Fri Feb 17 05:26:58 AEST 1989


I can confirm Fred's problem.  However I got a little suspicious, so logged in
via a terminal line and tried it -- all was fine.

It seems to be just the console driver that cannot accept the big write.
Sending the info to a serial port or over ethernet to a telnet session works
just fine.

Anyone for an input buffer overflow problem in the console driver? {*grin*}

	Dan Jones

P.S. Anyone gotten ambitious and seen what happens if instead of 1MB of NULs,
one sends, for example, 1MB of 'A's????



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