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Re: Fun with devices II /dev/psaux on linux 2.0.30
From: tgpt () PAS ROCHESTER EDU (Tom Guptill)
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:06:59 -0400
If I'm not mistaken, this bug will only affect machines that actually *use* a PS2 keyboard. At this point it might be safe to say: "Sending random data to hardware devices causes problems" rather than attempting to enumerate every device which reacts poorly to unexpected things being catted to it. - Tom -- Tom Guptill Department of Physics and Astronomy UNIX SA University of Rochester Rochester, NY USA On Wed, 21 May 1997, Therapy? wrote:
hi! just do: cat /bin/bash > /dev/psaux [CTRL-C] on a linux with a psaux device. keyboard will crash... /dev/psaux is installed 666 on slackware 3.2. bye, therapy
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