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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: tty_io wtf.
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:36:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060802223604.GI3639@redhat.com> (raw)

I knew I'd regret digging in the tty code.
Can someone enlighten me as to what this *should* be doing?

int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *chars,
                size_t size)
{   
   	.... 
    /* There is a small chance that we need to split the data over
       several buffers. If this is the case we must loop */
    while (unlikely(size > copied));
    return copied;
}   


Looping I can understand, but forever ?
Given we're not advancing 'copied', can we just kill that while loop?
Or should we be changing it with each iteration?

		Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-02 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-02 22:36 Dave Jones [this message]
2006-08-02 22:37 ` tty_io wtf Dave Jones
2006-08-02 23:02   ` [PATCH] tty_io.c: keep davej sane Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-03 13:12     ` Alan Cox
2006-08-02 22:51 ` tty_io wtf David Miller

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