On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:33:32 -0400, "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
wrote:

> At Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:43:40 +0200,
> Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:58:57PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:39:55PM +0400, Denis Lagno wrote:
> > > > I do not know is it actually a bug.  It was discovered by my cat:)
> > > 
> > > At work the cleaning woman discovered the same ;-)
> 
> This isn't a new problem -- it's been around since the dawn of UNIX, and
> probably affected other systems long before, as well as affecting other
> current systems with similar console paradigms.
> 
Indeed.  OS/360 used to ring a *very* loud alarm bell if the console
typewriter ran out of paper (and hence went "not ready"), since the entire
system would hang shortly afterwards if nothing were done....

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb