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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, koke@amedias.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Subject: Re: strange delays on console logouts (tty != 1)
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 10:53:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040502175326.GA30108@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040502135424.GA20578@apps.cwi.nl> <20040502111729.D9605@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:17:29AM +0100, Russell King wrote:

> The first one is of particular note, because it is the cause of the
> GROSS hack in agetty, which according to the comments is also in
> gdm.

I've emailed the debian util-linux maintainer about this.

> I wonder really if the problem was elsewhere, and if Debian wanted
> to take care of this problem, why they didn't just take the serial
> line locking solution (really: s/serial line/tty/) and apply it to
> agetty / gdm.

It locking really the way to do this?  What's wrong with vhangup?


On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:54:24PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> However, my agetty source does not contain the string VT_OPENQRY.  I
> suppose this is a private Debian change. Maybe you should contact
> Debian people to find out who did this and why.

Sorry, I used 'apt-get source' to get the source code and completely
forgot about the fact it would patch the package.

> (And/or try the vanilla agetty to see whether the problems go away.)

Vanilla will work as expected.  It still doesn't seem to prevent the
case where someone could terminate and leave a process running that
would take input later on though...  at least not that I can see.


Anyhow, this for not is clearly a userspace issue so sorry about all
the noise people.


   --cw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-02 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-30 19:53 Jorge Bernal
2004-05-01 21:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-01 23:24   ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-05-01 23:44     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-02  0:36       ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-05-02  0:45         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-02 13:54       ` Andries Brouwer
2004-05-02  1:03     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-02  8:00       ` Russell King
2004-05-02  8:13         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-02  8:17           ` Russell King
2004-05-02  9:37             ` Russell King
2004-05-02 10:17               ` Russell King
2004-05-02 12:01                 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-05-02 17:53                 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-05-02 18:01                   ` Russell King
2004-05-02 18:04                   ` Russell King
2004-05-02 18:19                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-01 22:20 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-02  0:26   ` Jorge Bernal

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