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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: system lockup
Summary: Yep; does it here too.  This is NASTY!
Keywords: bug?
Message-ID: <2947@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 89 05:11:24 GMT
References: <60@estinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
Lines: 25

In article <60@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
$
$I had a case of a program running on a Bell Technologies MPE386,
$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));
$	}
$
$Can anyone else confirm similar symptoms?

One "yeah, it happens here".

I think I'd call that a pretty major bug.  I've forwarded this to SCO.

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