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

[Peter Hurley]

On 01/28/2014 07:17 AM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 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?

Yes, this was applied and is on the mainline master branch,
so will appear in 3.14-rc1.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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