Re: cdrom: a dirty CD can freeze your system

[Wakko Warner]

Joshua Hudson wrote:
> On 5/4/06, Wakko Warner <wakko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Joshua Hudson wrote:
> >> I've seen this a few times. It never actually hung my system, only one
> >> virtual console. I wonder if preemptable kernel had something to do
> >> with that <g>
> >
> >I don't believe pre-empt has anything to do eith it.  I have a specialized
> >boot system (vairous types of boot media) w/o preempt turned on because I
> >want this as small as possible.  It also has this problem.
> 
> Uuhhh. I though preempt might be the reason the who system *wasn't* hanging.

One of those "didn't read the whole message" errors.  Oops.  All of my
systems (not the speciallized one) are preemptable.  I have not noticed any
lockups on those.

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