Subject: Re: AGAIN: syslogd stopped, what must I do?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/07/2002 14:25:03
[ 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".

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

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