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Re: [PATCH] fhandler_tty doecho change
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:21:43AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:50:54AM -0500, Steve O wrote:
>> Hi,
>> A week or so ago, I found that rxvt hangs could be fixed by making
>> the tty pipe non-blocking. As I look into this more, I discovered
>> that fhandler_pty_master::doecho uses the slave's side of the
>> pipe to accomplish echoing characters to the terminal. A clever
>> and simple solution, but it causes a deadlock when the slave's
>> write pipe is full.
>>
>> The solution presented in this patch is to use a buffer to store the
>> echo characters, similar to the readahead buffer. I wanted to use
>> the readahead buffer, but convinced myself that the data was
>> different enough that folding it in would create more complex code
>> than necessary.
>>
>> Fixing this deadlock revealed a deadlock in the
>> fhandler_pty_master::accept_input code which will be the subject of
>> my next patch.
>
>This looks interesting but is actually missing a ChangeLog entry.
I don't think we have an assignment on file for Steve, either.
(obligatory mumblings about legal crap deleted)
cgf