From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753274AbZHXSbO (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753251AbZHXSbM (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:12 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:52266 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753232AbZHXSbL (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:11 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Mikael Pettersson Subject: Re: [Bug #14015] pty regressed again, breaking expect and gcc's testsuite Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:32:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.31-rc6-rjw; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List References: <19090.26298.630328.344190@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <19090.26298.630328.344190@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908242032.11065.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 24 August 2009, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:27:02 +0200 (CEST), Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > from 2.6.30. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > > (either way). > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D14015 > > Subject : pty regressed again, breaking expect and gcc's testsuite > > Submitter : Mikael Pettersson > > Date : 2009-08-14 23:41 (6 days old) > > References : http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D125029329805643&w=3D4 > > The good news is that I don't see this issue any more with 2.6.31-rc7 > on x86. The bad news is that the first time I reported this issue, for > -rc3 or -rc4 I think, I thought it was fixed in -rc5 only to see it > reappear in -rc6 on x86 and in -rc5 on ARM. So I'd like to keep this > open another week while I run more regression tests on non-x86 platforms. > > While I don't suspect any arch-specific problems in the pty/tty code, > I do suspect timing/race-type problems which are obviously affected > by platform speed etc. OK, thanks for the update. Rafael