Re: panic in gnumach bell

2002-11-05 Thread Roland McGrath
Heh. Probably fixed now, but I haven't tried it. Of course, that code was never intended to be all that useful, just better than busy-waiting. But it shouldn't panic. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bu

panic in gnumach bell

2002-11-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Roland, the oskit bell you wrote in oskit/pc/osenv_bell.c is hazardous to the system's health: If you do something like "cat /bin/bash", which generates a lot of ^G, more than 20 within 1/8 of a second, the timer code (kern/mach_clock.c:timeout()) will panic. It seems to me a private timer mus