On 31/01/2017 14:19, Ed Swierk wrote: > Either way, when a pty is disconnected data will get dropped, whether > by the pty backend (as proposed) or by the serial port device or other > frontend (as currently). > > The only difference from a user's perspective is whether the dropped > data gets written to the log file, which is the main motivation for > this change. The backward compatibility concern would be an existing > application that relies on data not being logged when the pty is > disconnected.
Which is clearly a bug and a pointless difference between TCP and pty backends, so the patch is okay. Paolo
