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On 12/03/2013 12:23 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 12/03/2013 09:20 AM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>> As a PS: I think the termios is probably an RCU problem. The semaphore
>> seemed to make sense when I did it, but in hindsight I think I made the
>> wrong call.

Unfortunately, not without overhauling the console_lock().