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From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
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Subject: Re: Using watch to monitor serial port results in reboot
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:50:45PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running the latest -CURRENT.
> 
> If I do the following as root:
> 
> watch -c /dev/ttyd0
> 
> and then:
> 
> killall watch
> 
> My system immediately reboots (not even a kernel panic).
> 
> I am wondering if the recent work on the tty drivers has
> anything to do with this?

This is my experience with watch on a serial port the last time I tried
it (years and years ago).

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