Funny terminal behaviour: Actually shutdown is buggy

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 8 Jul 1996 13:48:54 +0100 (BST)


> $ cat big-file
>
> immediately press Ctrl-S
>
> and now you can't shutdown system until you press Ctrl-Q
>
> After Alt-Ctl-Del you can continue your work.
> ps shows:
>

The shutdown binary is buggy. It should time out its writes to terminals
and use O_NDELAY opens. Its not a kernel item.

I think I reported this about slackware 1.1 ;)