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From: Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistency between PTY read() return values
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:56:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408175603.GI32098@hoeg.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090408174716.6474af70@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

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Hi Alan,

* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> I would argue that TTYs do behave this way. We treat the disconnect as a
> hang up event. BSD sees it as EOF, Linux as hangup.

Would you mind explaining me the difference? I thought a modem
disconnect implies an end-of-file condition? If you take the code I
mentioned and modify it to close the master device and perform a read on
the TTY, it will return 0.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08 14:36 Inconsistency between PTY read() return values Ed Schouten
2009-04-08 16:47 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-08 17:56   ` Ed Schouten [this message]
2009-04-08 18:09     ` Alan Cox
2009-04-08 18:22       ` Ed Schouten

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