> > > login prompt. Originally, we did this for a few seconds on tty1 untill
> > > init would not allow it to respawn for 5 minutes becuase of its rapid
> > > reexcecution. We didn't let this ruin our so-called fun and switched to VC
> > > 2. We did this for every single virtual console except for three (which we
> > > accidentally skipped). We switched back to three and held down ^D. Uh,
> > > dang. Kernel panic. It printed a stack trace (about a paragraph).
> >
> > Reproduced on my 386 (UP ;-) running 2.1.128. I'll investigate.
>
> I managed to do the same using a v2.0.36pre? kernel. Something *IS* spooky
> out there.
:-( Too bad.
>From what I posted earlier, this is [design] bug with tty_open, and it
is NOT simple to fix. I hope we'll get it fixed in 2.1 but I'm not
sure about 2.0....
Pavel
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