Re: [BUG?] tty doesn't handle ^D at cooked/non-cooked switchingcorner case

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:00:23 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi tty expert,
> 
> Recently, ruby (scripting program language) developing group found
> that linux doesn't handle ^D properly at cooked/non-cooked switching
> corner case.

I don't believe the behaviour of input characters typed across that
boundary is defined by the standards at all. That said I think the
behaviour you expect is reasonable.

> They create following patch. is it right way?

You could recompute minimum in this case but zero is definitely
incorrect. I think what you would actually need to do is to extract out
the code just below do_it_again: which computes minimum and recompute it
properly.

Alan
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