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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: system lockup
Keywords: bug?
Message-ID: <555@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 89 14:12:22 GMT
References: <60@estinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <60@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>[...]
>under SCO 386 Xenix Version 2.3.1, which was causing the system
>to lock up (no response to any typing on any terminal).  I finally
>tracked it down.  This simple program demonstrates the problem
>on my system:
>
>	static char buf [1024 * 1024];
>	main ()
>	{
>		write (0, buf, sizeof (buf));
>	}

I'm not offering confirmation, but I am quite curious why you
are writing to file descriptor 0, normally associated with your
standard input -- a *read* descriptor.   Perhaps this is contributing
to your problem?

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Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com