Re: [RFC] tty: Add get- ioctls to fetch tty status

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 09/27/2012 07:14 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:14:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Alan, Greg, what's opinion? This flags fetching is the same as say fetching
>>> of termios settings, once fetched they can be changed immediately, and it's
>>> up to caller what to do with termios settings. No?
>>
>> I think you need to explain what you expect to be doing with it, and why
>> it is safe in that application.
>
> OK, it seems it was unclear from changelog. We need to know this parameters
> to be able to restore tty connection after checkpoint.
>
> While we easily can fetch termios settings and such, there are few bits which
> are missed to expord. So this patch provides them to user-space.
>

What bothers me (and the same applies to termios) is that you have NO 
idea if your particular process is the "owner" of that tty.  tty users 
use out-of-band protocols, often implicit, to determine which process 
"owns" the tty state.

If you can't guarantee that ALL those processes are stopped and 
checkpointed/restarted, you have a huge problem.

	-hpa

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