On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 scw(a)seas.ucla.edu wrote:
> Clearly you don't work at a university, where faculty members walk
> into the machine room and grab any old piece of equipment that they want
No, I work in an environment where dumb tubes are a greatly coveted
pieces of equipment, since we don't have too many to go around. Still,
pulling a serial cable doesn't cause the machine to halt in our
environment. I don't care that you want this functionality disabled. If
you do you'll never enable it in the variable. I have roughly 15 NACs in
6 different buildings, some of them 12 miles away.
> In any case OUR machine room is protected against faculty intrusion,
> and AIX doesn't have that problem anyway. But Sun's implementation of
> BREAK detection is severly broken ( 0v != SPACE ) or is it MARK?
Like I said, pulling the cable off doesn't do it, plugging the cable in
doesn't do it. Turning the tube on while connected to a Sun does it.
Hence, the tube is the broken piece not the Sun.
Tom