On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 18:57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> A much better fix might well be to actually not allow over-long tty writes
> at all, and thus avoid the "block out" thing at the source of the problem,
> instead of trying to make programs who play nice be the ones that suffer.
>
> If somebody does a 1MB write to a tty, do we actually have any reason to
> try to make it so damn atomic and not return early?
I would be concerned as to what applications rely in the tty write being done
completely before returning. OTOH I can't see any reason we can't drop the
atomicity part without dropping the 1Mb write will eventually write 1Mbyte
property. That would not seem to be a problem unless POSIX says otherwise ?
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