on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:25:03PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Friday, June 7, 2002 at 17:25:35 (+0100), xs@kittenz.org wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: AGAIN: syslogd stopped, what must I do?
> >
> > I agree. syslogd is blocking whilst writing to the terminal because the
> > scroll back buffer is full, I would guess. It should do non blocking i/o
> > imho.
> 
> That's almost infinitely easier said than done -- er, at least done
> "correctly".

That is why I have not tried yet. :)

> /dev/console should probably not be used by syslogd in any case where it
> can get XOFF'ed like that.....

What about notification to users? I think that opens the tty, so I suppose
would be restricted in the same way.