Re: Strange intermittent EIO error when writing to stdout since v3.8.0

[Mikael Pettersson]

Peter Hurley writes:
 > Based on the other reports from Mikael and David, I suspect this problem
 > may have to do with my commit 699390354da6c258b65bf8fa79cfd5feaede50b6:
 > 
 >    pty: Ignore slave pty close() if never successfully opened
 > 
 > This commit poisons the pty under certain error conditions that may
 > occur from parallel open()s (or parallel close() with pending write()).
 > 
 > It's unclear to me which error condition is triggered and how user-space
 > got an open file descriptor but that seems the most likely. Is the problem
 > reproducible enough that a debug patch would likely trigger?

In my case the problem occurred frequently enough that I've been forced
to change my build procedures to avoid it.  I'd welcome a debug patch.
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