Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:37:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: shell outputs anything typed when the kernel % |
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On Mar 21 2008 22:11, Madhou wrote: > > This is a long time annoying misconception i'm reporting here: > > When a command is run from a shell and drives the kernel to use 100% of cpu > for a while, linux lets printing on screen anything that is typed.
[For techies: "But I can type text on the tty even if I run sleep 1000!"]
Oh yeah wow. It's been like that for what, 15+ years? This is a shell feature - or bug, depending on how you look at it, the kernel merely does what the shell did to the tty.
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