linux-kernel - Re: PTY bug in 2.6.31-rc3?

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:57:47 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PTY bug in 2.6.31-rc3?

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:22:01PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Hey Alan,
> 
> I'm running 2.6.31-rc3, and twice now over about 36 hours all
> pseudo-tty's have stopped working on my system.   Everything else works;
> I can fire up gui applications, but starting any new programs that use
> pty's will hang.   The only fix seems to be to reboot the system.
> 
> I think I remember seeing a similar report, but I thought you said it
> had been fixed in -rc3 --- does this ring a bell?
> 

One problem is already fixed upstream. I have reported that here
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/865691. I still have
another bug which i explained in the last email of the above thread

-aneesh
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