Re: [PATCH]TTY: Fix tty can't be restarted by TCXONC ioctl request

From: Peter Hurley
Date: Wed May 08 2013 - 11:18:16 EST


On 05/08/2013 09:16 AM, Wang YanQing wrote:
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:02:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
What about Peter's comments on this patch?

Peter's comments will import policy,

I means we should let userspace to decide whether
and when to restart tty with the mechanism of TCXONC
instead of restart tty accidental when make n_tty_set_termios
call.

There would be no accidental restart. Userspace is specifically
disabling user-controlled output flow control by clearing
IXON in termios. Userspace is _expecting_ a 'started' tty.

If you insist that this must be controllable from userspace,
then that is already possible:

tcflow(fd, TCOOFF);
tcflow(fd, TCOON);


Regards,
Peter Hurley

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