On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:56:54AM +0200, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >You might have to wait until 6.0-R since fixing it seems to require > >infrastructure changes that cannot easily be backported to 5.x. > > With all due respect - if this is (and I'm assuming it is, because it > happens on all the servers I'm serial-controlling) an omnipresent > problem on 5.x, I daresay it should warrant some more attention. > Having unsafe serial terminal support that can bring down your system > like that defies much of the point of having serial terminal support > in the first place.
It *has* received attention, and the conclusion was as above. 6.0 has some significant TTY changes relative to 5.x, which probably cannot be backported without disruption. > However, since I seem to be the only one who has noticed this, > perhaps I'm the last person on earth to routinely use serial terminal > switches instead of KVM switches to do my admin work? No, others have reported it too. Kris
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