Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 
> If I read that part of emacs correctly, it seems to be assuming the data
> was already sent to master side if the child process was exited.

That sounds like a rather obvious assumption.

Aren't pty's flushing the data at flush() time? Which should be happening 
when the child process exits and closes the pty slave.

So at what point do we just admit that the commit that caused all this was 
a buggy pile of sh*t and just revert it?

		Linus
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