Re: PPP is not SMP safe in 2.2.X (fix)

From: Paul Mackerras (paulus@linuxcare.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 21:14:41 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:

> Getting a bad frame from the pty under high load is certainly legal anyway.

Oh? How does this happen? I thought it was all flow-controlled properly
and that the pty shouldn't drop any bytes. Surely the write on either side
should just return as many bytes as it can comfortably take at the time
(or block, in the case of the master side)?

Regards,
Paul.

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