Re: [RFC] potential ancient bug (since 1.99.14) at char/pty

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:01:03 -0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Alan/Ts'o,
> 
> There's an open bugzilla at Red Hat for the pty driver that I'm not sure
> what would be the better fix. It tracks to kernel 1.99.14:
> 	http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.99/13/drivers/char/ChangeLog
> 	http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.99/13/drivers/char/pty.c

You would need to look at the BSD Unix behaviour and the check SuS v3
specification (which I don't think covers this feature from memory).

I couldn't tell you off hand what the correct behaviour is so you'll have
to do a spot of research
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