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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: buffer overflows with FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 8 Dec 1994 20:23:01 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <D0GCKt.1H9@jester.gun.de>,
Michael Gerhards <michael@jester.GUN.de> wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>since I upgraded to FreeBSD 2.0, I get 'x tty-level buffer overflows'
>every time the uucico is running, even if the system is totally idle.
>
>I never got them in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. or previous releases.

I think they are reported better in 2.0 than in 1.X.  However, the only
time I've seen these is when there is data coming across the line and
there is no process receiving it.  Are you sure your handshaking is
setup correctly?


Nate
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