From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752007AbWG1Pgq (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:36:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752016AbWG1Pgq (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:36:46 -0400 Received: from adsl-70-250-156-241.dsl.austtx.swbell.net ([70.250.156.241]:19100 "EHLO gw.microgate.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752007AbWG1Pgp (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:36:45 -0400 Message-ID: <44CA2F07.4020908@microgate.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:36:39 -0500 From: Paul Fulghum User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: tty buffering limit References: <200607221209_MC3-1-C5CA-50EB@compuserve.com> <44C25548.5070307@microgate.com> <20060725184158.GH9021@kroah.com> <44C66D1C.7010903@microgate.com> <20060726071652.GA6204@kroah.com> <1153941029.6903.5.camel@amdx2.microgate.com> <1154094816.13509.132.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1154094816.13509.132.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > Certain people seem to have assumed tty->throttled was 'advisory'. In > the absence of tty->author->throttle(), it seems we should keep a simple > limit of our own to avoid problems when this occurs. Looks reasonable as a general failsafe. There may be other pathological cases it protects against. I'll start banging on it. -- Paul Fulghum Microgate Systems, Ltd.