RE: bug w2k

From: Tom Laermans (tom.laermans@powersource.cx)
Date: 07/29/01 

Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010729132433.047edbd8@mail.powersource.cx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:26:03 +0200
To: Kevin Thayer <kthayer@paypal.com>
From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
Subject: RE: bug w2k

At 20:30 28/07/2001, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I was able to reproduce this bug on the first try. However, the machine did
>not reboot until after the ping had finished. (I did a ping -t).

Same here, Win2K SP2 Dutch...

>It appears to be the result of windows trapping the input and feeding it to
>the command interpreter (cmd.exe) all at once. F7 displays a list of the
>most recent commands, so it appears that windows is trying to run several
>copies of an identical command simultaneously and that's making it very
>unhappy.

That was my analysis too.. well sort of... I think the 'doskey'
functionality is included in cmd.exe ... but there's something not quite
right in there, too many carriage returns or something ;)

>Surprising that we don't at least get a BSOD.

I did... The same as the one reported before.. "Failure in module "Windows
SubSystem" at <addresses here>" ... Wait 5 seconds, warmboot...

Tom

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