diff -aur -x .[a-zA-Z]* -x *.o -x *~ -x *.s -x *vmlinux* -x *.a -x i386/boot/* test12_orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c test12_bryder/drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- test12_orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c	Mon Dec 11 05:44:52 2000
+++ test12_bryder/drivers/char/tty_io.c	Wed Dec 13 10:05:18 2000
@@ -1650,8 +1650,11 @@
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 	tty->driver.break_ctl(tty, -1);
-	if (!signal_pending(current))
-		schedule_timeout(duration);
+	if (!signal_pending(current)) {
+		/* schedule_timeout is expected to act like this */
+		/* expire = timeout + jiffies ; stuff ; return (expire - jiffies) */
+		while ( (duration = schedule_timeout(duration))  > 0) { }
+	}
 	tty->driver.break_ctl(tty, 0);
 	if (signal_pending(current))
 		return -EINTR;