Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 09:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/3004: "watch" causes a reboot when not given a tty name Message-ID: <199703161740.JAA09396@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3004; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To: jfesler@gigo.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/3004: "watch" causes a reboot when not given a tty name
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:20:23 +0100
According to Jason Fesler:
> >Description:
>
> "watch" can cause the system to reboot without any trace
> of information in the logs. I don't have dumps being written
> to disk at the moment (at home, I don't have the space..).
> If this is not repeatable, I can turn on dumps and send
> one of them..
It has been fixed in the current sources. 2.2 also have the fix (Jörg put
it in the 2.2 branch). The problem was that watch tried to enable snoop
mode on /dev/tty.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb 2 22:12:44 CET 1997
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