system lockup

[Karl Denninger]

In article <60 at estinc.UUCP> fnf at estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
$
$I had a case of a program running on a Bell Technologies MPE386,
$under SCO 386 Xenix Version 2.3.1, which was causing the system
$to lock up (no response to any typing on any terminal).  I finally
$tracked it down.  This simple program demonstrates the problem
$on my system:
$
$	static char buf [1024 * 1024];
$
$	main ()
$	{
$		write (0, buf, sizeof (buf));
$	}
$
$Can anyone else confirm similar symptoms?

One "yeah, it happens here".

I think I'd call that a pretty major bug.  I've forwarded this to SCO.

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