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From: Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu>
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Do

echo 'main() { write(1, 0, 1); }' > edos.c
gcc -o edos edos.c
./edos | cat

... and now the edos process gets stuck in the write syscall, unkillably,
keeping the CPU spinning. (Seen on my 6.0-RELEASE and 7.0-CURRENT boxen.)

Is it a bug or a feature?

Csaba