linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

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Message-ID: <20090724164058.21a054e6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:40:58 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:45 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:

> On Friday 24 July 2009, Ray Lee wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > > A recent kernel change broke kdesu (from KDE 4.2) on my test boxes.  ISTR a
> > > discussion about that, but I can't find it right now.  Any clues?
> > 
> > See the thread starting here: ("possible regression with pty.c commit")
> >    http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/11/125
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> Well, I thought we were expected to avoid breaking existing user space, even
> if that were buggy etc.

I don't know where you got that idea from. Avoiding breaking user space
unneccessarily is good but if its buggy you often can't do anything about
it.

Alan
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