On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> I agree. However, the fact that the VT switch disables interrupts for
> so long has the potential to cause all kinds of wierd effects. If you
> used to be able to do this VT switch without problems, then its
> clearly not the issue, but I just thought I should mention it. The
> FIFO used by cdrecord makes it less of a real-time program than it
> otherwise would be, but I know that VT switching can cause problems
> for other real-time applications.
Which raises a few questions:
Why does it disable the interrupts for so long?
Can anything be done to fix that situation?
What about the other ones like... aic7xxx scsi bus reset caused by reading
dirty cdrom that disables (at least used to in 2.2.xx) interrupts for
_20 seconds_(!) or so?
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