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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TTY: tty_port questions
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:09:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120325220907.0591f517@ultron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120325172018.GL6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:20:18 +0100
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 05:14:37PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > >> FWIW, uml console in default config is basically "start xterm for each VC".
> > >> What do you suggest to do on vhangup() on one of those?
> > > 
> > > What posix says must happen. Which is that the running processes get a
> > > hangup. So a vhangup() would ensure there were no old apps on the UML
> > > guess talking to the xterm (eg stealing login credentials, or abusing
> > > TIOCSTI etc).
> 
> IIRC, vhangup(2) is Linux-specific, so I would be surprised if POSIX had
> anything on it...

vhangup causes a carrier drop event equivalent. The rest of the behavior
is POSIX/SUSv3.

> login(1) from util-linux does vhangup(); login(1) from shadow doesn't.

Shadow assumes the getty cleans the channel I believe.

> The thing is, we don't want to do that when port is in use.  And we definitely
> don't want somebody to open the damn thing when it's halfway through getting
> set up.  I don't see any natural way to do that exclusion with tty_port -
> port->{count,block_open} is protected only by a spinlock and port setup
> we need to do is blocking...

How does this differ from a hardware hotplug ?

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-25 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-10 22:26 TTY: tty_port questions Richard Weinberger
2012-03-10 22:51 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-10 23:21   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-11 11:01     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-12 10:26       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-12 10:53         ` Alan Cox
2012-03-12 11:15           ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-12 11:48             ` Alan Cox
2012-03-24 23:20               ` Al Viro
2012-03-25 14:51                 ` Alan Cox
2012-03-25 15:14                   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-25 17:20                     ` Al Viro
2012-03-25 21:09                       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-03-25 18:31                   ` Al Viro
2012-03-25 21:06                     ` Alan Cox
2012-03-25 22:33                       ` Al Viro
2012-03-28 11:06                         ` Alan Cox

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