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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: the scrambled getty?
Message-ID: <554@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 89 19:15:43 GMT
References: <5651@holston.UUCP>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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In article <5651@holston.UUCP> barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:
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>not associated with the outside world. A kill -9 has no effect
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Nearly all the time such a thing happens, it has something to
do with hardware malfunction. In case of serial lines, it is
often a problem of missing flow control to become active (ie
the driver has seen XOFF and is waiting for XON or the
corresponding hardware lines are not asserted).
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