Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

Greg KH
2003-01-12T09:20:46Z

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:19:08PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The entire tty layer locking is terminally broken and nobody has even
> started fixing it. Just try a mass of parallel tty/pty activity . It
> was problematic before, pre-empt has taken it to dead, defunct and
> buried.

I've looked into this, and wow, it's not a simple fix :(

But this is really the first it's been mentioned, I can't see holding up
2.6 for this. It's a 2.7 job at the earliest, unless someone wants to
step up and do it right now...

thanks,

greg k-h