linux-kernel - Re: Large pastes into readline enabled programs causes breakage from v2.6.31 onwards

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Date:	Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:57:50 +0200
From:	Margarita Manterola <margamanterola@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Maximiliano Curia <maxy@...ian.org>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Large pastes into readline enabled programs causes breakage from
 v2.6.31 onwards

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:

>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
>> index 4bf0fc0..2ba7f4e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
>> @@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ static int set_room(struct tty_struct *tty)
>>          * characters will be beeped.
>>          */
>>         if (left <= 0)
>> -               left = ldata->icanon && !ldata->canon_data;
>> +               if (waitqueue_active(&tty->read_wait))
>> +                       left = ldata->icanon && !ldata->canon_data;
>>         old_left = tty->receive_room;
>>         tty->receive_room = left;

> Was this applied? You may want to cc rjw... it is a regression, it is
> not pretty, and it is something I blieve I hit but thought it was some
> kind of "X weirdness".

There were no replies to the previous mail asking for comments, and as
far as I can see this has not been applied. I don't know who rjw is,
could you be a bit more explicit, please?

-- 
Besos,
Marga
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