> The point being that holding the tty lock across the _entire_ close > is equivalent to the current outcome, regardless of O_NONBLOCK. > > I'm reluctant to start returning EGAIN for non-blocking tty opens > because no tty driver does that now, and I don't think userspace will > deal well with new return codes from tty opens.
I do not know about the non blocking case mattering. The blocking open does need to wait, when I broke that case before I broke the console login drivers (mingetty). Returning EAGAIN would also only work if poll/select did the right thing. Currently Linux can't support a System5 style ttymon process because of this limitation, which means, for example, that systemd can't implement a single thread to manage all console prompts/setup Alan _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
