On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:00:37AM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> The attached patch seems to fix the problem of copying data from one
> VT to another whilst scrolling. It's surely overkill because you only
> need to lock against a VT switch and I'm not sure whether only 
> scrolling can cause characters appearing on the wrong VT.

The other problem is that you lock out interrupts for a long time.
This is especially bad if ISA bus timings apply to the scroll.
(Which was the caes in a commercial Unix...)

	David

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