Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!jcc-one!djones
From: djones@jcc-one.UUCP (Dan Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: system lockup
Summary: Problem is console driver, not xenix
Keywords: bug?
Message-ID: <107@jcc-one.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 19:26:58 GMT
References: <60@estinc.UUCP> <555@marob.MASA.COM>
Organization: Peripheral Systems R&D Offsite, Redondo Beach, CA
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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????