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Message-ID: <87ocr5dfpb.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:38:24 +0900
From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>
>> If I read that part of emacs correctly, it seems to be assuming the data
>> was already sent to master side if the child process was exited.
>
> That sounds like a rather obvious assumption.
>
> Aren't pty's flushing the data at flush() time? Which should be happening
> when the child process exits and closes the pty slave.
For tty, I guess yes. However, now, pty is pushing the data to other
side by background, I'm not sure at all though, I guess ppp is requiring it.
> So at what point do we just admit that the commit that caused all this was
> a buggy pile of sh*t and just revert it?
Also, I'm not sure though, I guess it depends on the bug which was fixed
by the commit.
I don't know about ppp problem at all. So, personally I'm ok either way
- we revert it and try to fix this for next merge window, or continue to
fix this for a while.
Alan-san?
Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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