Re: open() on /dev/tty takes 30 seconds on 2.6.36

[Alan Cox]

> I think we need to find out why it's hitting the timeout most of all,

Its a perfectly normal happening in some cases - eg when you the remote
end asserts flow control and then hangs up on you leaving it that way.

So we need to handle this by dropping locks correctly.
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