From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263489AbTJ0ThF (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:37:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263490AbTJ0ThF (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:37:05 -0500 Received: from yakov.inr.ac.ru ([193.233.7.111]:47511 "HELO yakov.inr.ac.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263489AbTJ0ThD (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:37:03 -0500 From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Message-Id: <200310271936.WAA07348@yakov.inr.ac.ru> Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9 To: torvalds@osdl.org (Linus Torvalds) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:36:21 +0300 (MSK) Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List), netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller), kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Oct 26, 2003 04:21:59 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > And Alexey apparently tried to do the "FIXME" part, but without thinking > about the SIGURG part. Actually, it was thought a lot for several linux-2.x. :-) > We _need_ to stop at urgent data and we _should_ return -EINTR, and let > the SIGURG handler do the URG read. Otherwise we'll lose urgent data (or > we'll just read it inline without realizing that it was urgent data). The patch was expected not to break this property. Alas, something is overlooked yet. I still do not understand what exactly is broken, I feel I have to find some rlogin to experiment in vivo. Alexey