| commit | 4b06376957c568646b3d94d0075013b7871d35f6 | |
| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | |
| Tue, 5 May 2015 22:59:07 +0000 (6 08:59 +1000) | ||
| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | |
| Thu, 7 May 2015 08:24:51 +0000 (7 10:24 +0200) | ||
| tree | 77778fa865ac7ad79037c86b206d960604e66742 | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | ec9a2be0f9751893a1c1e1e1e7ca5be069b5869c | commitdiff |
pty.7: Clarify asynchronous nature of PTY I/O
A PTY is not like a pipe - there may be delayed between data
being written at one end and it being available at the other.
This became particularly apparent after
commit f95499c3030f
("n_tty: Don't wait for buffer work in read() loop")
in Linux 3.12
See also the mail thread at https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/35
Date Mon, 04 May 2015 12:32:04 -0400
From Peter Hurley <>
Subject Re: [PATCH bisected regression] input_available_p()
sometimes says 'no' when it should say 'yes'
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
A PTY is not like a pipe - there may be delayed between data
being written at one end and it being available at the other.
This became particularly apparent after
commit f95499c3030f
("n_tty: Don't wait for buffer work in read() loop")
in Linux 3.12
See also the mail thread at https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/35
Date Mon, 04 May 2015 12:32:04 -0400
From Peter Hurley <>
Subject Re: [PATCH bisected regression] input_available_p()
sometimes says 'no' when it should say 'yes'
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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