RE: bug w2k

[Tom Laermans <tom.laermans () powersource cx>]

At 20:30 28/07/2001, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was able to reproduce this bug on the first try. However, the machine did
> not reboot until after the ping had finished. (I did a ping -t).

Same here, Win2K SP2 Dutch...

> It appears to be the result of windows trapping the input and feeding it to
> the command interpreter (cmd.exe) all at once. F7 displays a list of the
> most recent commands, so it appears that windows is trying to run several
> copies of an identical command simultaneously and that's making it very
> unhappy.

That was my analysis too.. well sort of... I think the 'doskey' 
functionality is included in cmd.exe ... but there's something not quite 
right in there, too many carriage returns or something ;)

> Surprising that we don't at least get a BSOD.

I did... The same as the one reported before.. "Failure in module "Windows 
SubSystem" at <addresses here>" ... Wait 5 seconds, warmboot...

Tom

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