Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9

From: kuznet
Date: Mon Oct 27 2003 - 14:37:52 EST


Hello!

> And Alexey apparently tried to do the "FIXME" part, but without thinking
> about the SIGURG part.

Actually, it was thought a lot for several linux-2.x. :-)


> We _need_ to stop at urgent data and we _should_ return -EINTR, and let
> the SIGURG handler do the URG read. Otherwise we'll lose urgent data (or
> we'll just read it inline without realizing that it was urgent data).

The patch was expected not to break this property. Alas, something
is overlooked yet. I still do not understand what exactly is broken,
I feel I have to find some rlogin to experiment in vivo.

Alexey

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