Re: [Bug #14015] pty regressed again, breaking expect and gcc'stestsuite

[Mikael Pettersson]

Linus Torvalds writes:
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > 
 > > Thanks, I'm testing this and the pty_write() fix on i686 and ppc64 now.
 > > 
 > > Sometimes the bug is difficult to trigger, so I may need to do loads of
 > > testing with different gcc versions before I dare to say that it's fixed.
 > 
 > Ok, I'm going to commit the two patches, because even if there is some 
 > other bug hiding too (and it doesn't fix your thing - although I think it 
 > will), this is definitely a real fix regardless.
 > 
 > And I want to do a -rc9 and let it get a couple of days of testing, since 
 > I got way more pull requests than I hoped for while I was off diving.

With these two fixes my i686 box finished all gcc bootstrap/regtest
cycles I had scheduled with no signs of pty errors. My ppc64 box
isn't done yet, but so far it's not seen any errors either. So I'm
reasonably optimistic about these fixes.

/Mikael
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