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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:07:03 +0200
"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> wrote:

> c) Occasionally the command line just hangs, producing no output.
>    In this case I can't kill it with ^C or ^\.  This is a 
>    hard-to-reproduce behaviour on my (x86) system, but I have 
>    seen it several times by now.

aka local DoS.  Please capture sysrq-T output next time.