[3205] in Athena Bugs
Re: Vax serial port bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Thu Sep 14 21:42:09 1989
From: Henry Mensch <henry@MIT.EDU>
To: <samkho@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Sep 89 12:38:39 -0400.
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 13:59:18 EDT
you do not say which device you have attached to your serial port.
you also don't say what release you are running (saying "current" is
relative--what you think is current i may think is stale).
please be more specific.
thanks,
-- henry mensch / <henry@athena.mit.edu>
-- project athena quality assurance
REFERENCE:
> there seems to be a bug with the kernel or device driver or whatever. the
> bug is present in the current release of Athena for the VAXstation 2000.
>
> the same piece of code:
>
> fopen("/dev/ttys?", "r+");
>
> crashes and reboots the machine for the 25 pin serial port, but works okay
> for the 9 pin port. other variations, like
>
> open instead of fopen
>
> yield similar results (i.e. works on 9 pin, crashes/reboots on 25 pin).
