On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 scw@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