Re: cat problem in tiny_tty driver (the source included)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:33:52PM +0300, Mockern wrote:
> Thank you very much for you help.
> 
> BTW, for cat < /dev/my_tty1 can see here something wrong?
> as I understand tiny_timer function sends data to tty level
> by calling tty_flip_buffer_push(tty).
> 
> Is this enough to support cat < /dev/my_tty1?

I don't really know the tty layer very much.  I just saw a very obvious
bug in the code.

Does cat from the device give an error or does it just not do anything?

What does strace say for that?

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Len Sorensen
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