tty->count != #fd's

Thomas Koenig (ig25@mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:30:45 +0100 (MET)

I just had the following warning in 2.0.25:

foo kernel: Warning: dev (04:c5) tty->count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup

This appears to happen sometimes when a ssh connection is terminated,
from random pty's.

This bug has been there for quite some time, and looks like a race
condition in the pty or tty code to me.

Does anybody have any hints where I should start looking for race
conditions?

-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
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