Re: Linux-2.2.2-pre2..
Wolfgang Walter (wolfgang.walter@stusta.mhn.de)
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:40:24 +0100
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 05:01:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On 6 Feb 1999, Philippe Troin wrote:
> >
> > Methinks there's still a problem, and just checking for tty->termios
> > to be non-null fixes one symptom.
>
> Ok. That was what I suspected might be the case, and I never like hiding
> symptoms rather than fixing the cause. However, I hoped it would be good
> enough for 2.2.2.
>
> > Are these 'dev (03:00) tty->count(0) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup' and
> > 'null tty in fasync' really harmless ?
>
> Obviously not. We've had them _forever_, and I've just always assumed it
Don't know if this is of any interest for the 2.2 case, but in 2.0.36 (UP) I
still get this error, though very very seldom. It happens if pty's are opened
and closed very fast.
Wolfgang Walter
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