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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
