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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:31:59 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel)
Cc:        nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tty-level buffer overflows - what to do?
Message-ID:  <199604041931.MAA17330@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <m0u4ugp-000A0mC@deadline.snafu.de>
References:  <199604041914.MAA17253@rocky.sri.MT.net> <m0u4ugp-000A0mC@deadline.snafu.de>

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> That means the interrupt that happens is not guaranteed to be IRQ 7 but
> maybe any other unassigned interrupt?

Yep.

> The only cards I have installed in this machine are the following:
> 
> IDE/FDC controller card (without any other ports etc)
> 
> Multi I/O card with COM1 COM2 LPT(completely disabled including IRQ) and
> Gameport (also disabled)

I'll bet dollars to donuts that the 'disabling' of the card doesn't
actually disable the generation of suprious interupts.  I have found few
cheap I/O boards that actually 'disable' interrupts.  Most of them no
longer assign them to an IRQ handler, but still generate them.


Nate



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