Re: Visible Ctrl-C in latest kernels

From: Joe Peterson
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 10:00:30 EST


Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>> Chris, yes, what you are now seeing on the newer kernel is correct.
>> Thanks guys. I was not aware of this change before asking. The change
>> makes sense. I wasn't having any problems with it, just wondering where
>> it came from.
>>
>> Thanks for the enlightenment. :-)
>
> I would not be surprized that it is what has caused delays for Ctrl-C
> to take effect for some of us. As discussed in another thread on the
> subject, the problem was relatively recent and not easy to reproduce.
> Now we have a patch to try to revert if/when we finally get a reproducible
> case.

It seems very unlikely that the echo has anything to do with it, other
than making the problem more visible. See this post:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121526224222656&w=2

And to what patch of yours are you referring?

-Joe

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