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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tty-next 14/22] tty: Remove tty_wait_until_sent_from_close()
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:58:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141010095828.1f0de28b@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5434B5D3.4060308@hurleysoftware.com>

> The point being that holding the tty lock across the _entire_ close
> is equivalent to the current outcome, regardless of O_NONBLOCK.
> 
> I'm reluctant to start returning EGAIN for non-blocking tty opens
> because no tty driver does that now, and I don't think userspace will
> deal well with new return codes from tty opens.

I do not know about the non blocking case mattering. The blocking open
does need to wait, when I broke that case before I broke the console
login drivers (mingetty).

Returning EAGAIN would also only work if poll/select did the right thing.
Currently Linux can't support a System5 style ttymon process because of
this limitation, which means, for example, that systemd can't implement a
single thread to manage all console prompts/setup

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-10  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1402924639-5164-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com>
2014-06-16 13:17 ` [PATCH tty-next 14/22] tty: Remove tty_wait_until_sent_from_close() Peter Hurley
2014-06-17  8:00   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-17  8:18     ` David Laight
2014-06-17 10:57     ` Peter Hurley
2014-06-17 11:03       ` David Laight
2014-06-17 11:31         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-17 11:54           ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-06-17 11:32         ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-09 13:57           ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-08  3:56         ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-10  8:58           ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-07-10 23:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-11 15:03     ` Peter Hurley

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