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- From: jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: SIGHUP with a MUGNET kernel
- Message-ID: <59910@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:28:12 GMT
- References: <920825109@comsat.hacktic.nl> <1992Aug26.083721.16555@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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- grundy@rtf.bt.co.uk (Martin Grundy) writes:
- >marcel@comsat.hacktic.nl (Marcel Kat) writes:
- >>I have a problem with the SIGHUP package as posted in Februari this year.
- >>
- >>As soon as an interference occurs on the 'mains', like when i put
- >>a light on, Minix or more likely INIT goes in a SUSPEND state.
- >>As a result a reboot is the only way out. It happens about 3 times a day.
- >
- >I installed the SIGHUP package (from James de Silve) on my Minix386 and
- >have noticed a similar thing, although not so serious. If I apply power
- >to a modem when it is already connected to the com port, it *sometimes*
- >crashes the system. It has never trashed the filesystem though (yet:-) -
- >it probably does a sync().
-
- For what it's worth, I ran a BBS under Minix/386 with the SIGHUP patches
- for some months, and I don't recall this type of failure occurring. And I
- haven't received any patches to the SIGHUP code to date.
-
- I no longer run Minix, so I can't help, but since the SIGHUP changes are
- small, I suggest you put on your kernel-hacker hat and start putting in
- some diagnostics so that you can pinpoint the source of failure. I suppose
- it's possible that the SIGHUP patch is not getting along with MUGNET-
- specific changes. I don't know.
-
- If you do have a fix for the SIGHUP patch, please send it to me so that I
- can pass it on to any others that have problems.
-
- Thanks,
- Jaime
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