Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Nov 1997 13:14:49 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Linux Stability & cold.system |
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On 18 Nov 1997, Eberhard Burr wrote:
> Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Adam D. Bradley wrote: > > > Anyone else have useful sadistic tricks? > > Plug a null-modem-cable between two serial ports (both config'd as > 16450 at highest baud-rate) and see whether what you put out one of > them arrives at the other end. Should generate quite a few > interrupts. > (of course you could short-circuit a pty-pair with a FIFO as well, but > that wouldn't generate hardware interrupts)
Well, you could do both :-) ie: date -> pty -> tty -> cuax -> ttySx -> pty -> tty -> output
or even better, do it full-duplex :-)
Rik.
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