Re: xterm loses data (pty regression)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Aug 10 2009 - 13:19:20 EST




On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Ray Lee wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Artur Skawina <art.08.09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > First noticed it after upgrading to v2.6.31-rc5-246-g90bc1a6, still happens
> > in rc5-381-g7b2aa03.
> > If i press ^S in an xterm the output stops as expected, but after a ^Q i see
> > only the newly written data, everything in between is lost.

Yup, I can confirm that.

> > > for i in `seq 1 111`; do echo $i; sleep 1; done

(Do ^S/^Q, see data loss)

Will take a look asap, thanks. Although I bet it's the same old commit
(d945cb9cc: "pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering logic")
again.

Linus
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