Re: Inconsistency between PTY read() return values

From: Ed Schouten
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 14:23:15 EST


* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A modem disconnect is a hang up which is quite different to an EOF and is
> effectively a security barrier as well (existing users of the tty port
> lose access to it aka revoke())

Ah, I see. I thought of a hangup as being a physical loss of carrier,
not the method of revoking processes from a TTY. So how come a hangup
can be seen by the pseudo-terminal master? Isn't that something that
should only cause file descriptors to the TTY to become invalid?

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Ed Schouten <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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