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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:18:08 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Dmitry Krivenok <krivenok.dmitry@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange behavior of kernel module (output terminated)
Message-ID:  <20100323191808.GE32142@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <da48cf211003230218n56794f0bs27eef860efc0da3e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <da48cf211003230218n56794f0bs27eef860efc0da3e@mail.gmail.com>

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* Dmitry Krivenok <krivenok.dmitry@gmail.com> wrote:
> As you can see the loop was terminated after i=3D=3D466.
> I tried to load/unload the module many times but the last printed number =
was
> always 466.
>=20
> Then I compiled the same module on FreeBSD-7.2 (note, the first test was =
run
> on 8.0).
> I saw exactly the same behavior except that the last number was always 55=
0.

Yes. There is not a single form of flow control here, so if you can't
write more data into the TTY buffers, it will just get discarded.
FreeBSD 7 does the same thing as 8, but the default buffer sizes are
probably a bit different.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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