Re: Large pastes into readline enabled programs causes breakage fromv2.6.31 onwards

[Stas Sergeev]

28.01.2014 16:03, Pavel Machek ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> Hi!
>
>>>> How is this different from the unpatched kernel?
>>>> In the unpatched kernel, if you happen on reader side
>>>> to enable icanon while n_tty received all but VEOF (is this
>>>> possible at all?),
>>>> then the buffer will be flushed, and the remaining VEOF
>>>> will get you a nice EOF.
>>>> So, in the unpatched kernel you get EOF because the buffer
>>>> gets wiped.
>>> ???
>>>
>>> Testcase output from 3.12 w/o patch:
>> OK, sorry, after a year of rot of my patch in bugzilla, I've
>> completely forgot the pre-conditions, which is that the
>> buffer is not discarded, just not pushed.
>>
>>> Consider the total brute-force approach; a shadow read_flags that
>>> distinguishes a real EOF receive from the fake EOF push initiated
>>> by the patch.
> Was this solved somehow?
Wasn't this already applied?
I think you've missed the part of the discussion thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux.kernel/05c-vQUDww4/umXJsD_uiskJ
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