Re: Fun with devices II /dev/psaux on linux 2.0.30

Tom Guptill (tgpt@PAS.ROCHESTER.EDU)
Thu, 22 May 1997 09:06:59 -0400

If I'm not mistaken, this bug will only affect machines that actually
*use* a PS2 keyboard.

At this point it might be safe to say:

"Sending random data to hardware devices causes problems"

rather than attempting to enumerate every device which reacts poorly to
unexpected things being catted to it.

- Tom

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Tom Guptill                     Department of Physics and Astronomy
UNIX SA                         University of Rochester  Rochester, NY USA
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Therapy? wrote:


> hi!
>
> just do:
>
> cat /bin/bash > /dev/psaux
> [CTRL-C]
>
> on a linux with a psaux device. keyboard will crash...
> /dev/psaux is installed 666 on slackware 3.2.
>
> bye,
>         therapy
>