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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] potential ancient bug (since 1.99.14) at char/pty
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:16:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111191609.00c14644@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091111150103.06cc3489@pedra.chehab.org>

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:01:03 -0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Alan/Ts'o,
> 
> There's an open bugzilla at Red Hat for the pty driver that I'm not sure
> what would be the better fix. It tracks to kernel 1.99.14:
> 	http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.99/13/drivers/char/ChangeLog
> 	http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.99/13/drivers/char/pty.c

You would need to look at the BSD Unix behaviour and the check SuS v3
specification (which I don't think covers this feature from memory).

I couldn't tell you off hand what the correct behaviour is so you'll have
to do a spot of research

      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11 17:01 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-11-11 19:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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