Hi!

> Comments? Does this work? Does it make any difference? It seems fairly 
> unlikely, but it's the only obvious problem I've seen in the tty buffering 
> code so far.
> 
> And that code is literally 3 years old, and it seems unlikely that a 
> regular _keyboard_ buffer would be able to hit the (rather small) race 
> condition. But other serialization may have hidden it, and timing 
> differences could certainly have caused it to trigger much more easily.

I use this (run as root) to trigger various problems in this
area... (portable between i386 and i386).

                                                                Pavel

void
main(void)
{
        int i;
        iopl(3);
        while (1) {
                asm volatile("cli");
                //              for (i=0; i<20000000; i++)
                for (i=0; i<1000000000; i++)
                        asm volatile("");
                asm volatile("sti");
                sleep(1);
        }
}


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