Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

For tty, I guess yes. However, now, pty is pushing the data to other
side by background, I'm not sure at all though, I guess ppp is requiring it.

> 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?

Also, I'm not sure though, I guess it depends on the bug which was fixed
by the commit.

I don't know about ppp problem at all. So, personally I'm ok either way
- we revert it and try to fix this for next merge window, or continue to
fix this for a while.

Alan-san?

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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