linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] rfcomm (userland) broken by commit 29cd718b

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Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:35:26 +0100
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
CC:	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Gianluca Anzolin <gianluca@...tospazio.it>,
	marcel@...tmann.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jslaby@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] rfcomm (userland) broken by commit 29cd718b

Am 12.12.2013 21:36, schrieb Peter Hurley:

>> What currently happens is that when one kills rfcomm (and any other
>> terminal which might use that tty), the entry in /dev doesn't
>> disappear. That means the same call to refcomm with the same device
>> (e.g. [/dev/]rfcomm1 doesn't work.
> 
> Thanks for the report, Alexander.
> 
> Point 4 above details a different situation; something else is
> happening.
> 
> Would you please detail the necessary steps to reproduce this regression?
> (How do you 'kill' rfcomm? etc.  Shell command lines would be best.)

Just call

rfcomm connect rfcomm9 01:23:45:67:89:ab

wait until the connection happened  (a message will appear) and then
press ctrl-c. This still terminates the bluetooth connection, but the
device in /dev is now left.

Regards,

Alexander Holler
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