On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> That should be about it. Unfortunately I did not get a chance to
> merge in Stephen Tweedie's ext2 I/O error recovery fixes, that
> certainly will make it into 2.0.31 so do not worry. ;-)
>
> I would love it if only one more pre-patch is needed for a final
> 2.0.31 so people please test this well.
I have reported a problem with ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) in the kernel a few weeks
ago to the list as well as to Linus. He asked me to try and pin-point it
to the specific kernel. I sent my response to him and to the list a
couple of times but received no feedback.
What I responded with is as follows:
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Okay, it is definitely 2.0.30 that is at fault. This is easily producable
on my system from tty1 virtual console:
1. login as gomer
2. rlogin -l gomer localhost
3. stty size
4. if size == ok, type "exit" and goto step 2
5. stty size -> 0, 0
While doing this, I also noticed something else. After doing an "exit"
and redoing rlogin -l gomer localhost, there is a very noticable delay of
4-5 seconds taken to actually login (this is on a totally idle PPro 200).
The very first rlogin is RAPID. The second rlogin is always delayed.
When I went to 2.0.29, rlogin was consistantly rapid *always*. And after
20 or more attempts at reproducing the incorrect row/cols stty values, I
gave up.
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I have since tried the above with the pre 2.0.31-2 patches applied. The
same problems still occur so I guess I will be stuck with 2.0.29 again.
In addition to attempting to strace where rlogin was "pausing" temporarily
(see above), it appears to be on a connect(127.0.0.1) sometimes (but not
always) and on read() of /etc/motd. Again, with 2.0.29, things are very
rapid under all circumstances.
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