From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754933Ab2EHUlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2012 16:41:51 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33509 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752489Ab2EHUlt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2012 16:41:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA984FE.1040801@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 13:41:34 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] pty: Lock the devpts bits privately References: <20120503212151.568.91854.stgit@bob.linux.org.uk> <20120503212205.568.25804.stgit@bob.linux.org.uk> <4FA9637B.1060609@zytor.com> <20120508214309.2d50e5f0@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120508214309.2d50e5f0@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/08/2012 01:43 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > One step at a time. I agree entirely that the ideal case is that > devpts_foo is internally locked and coherent. That is an exercise for > someone who likes devpts 8) > OK. I can look at that later; this should detach it enough from the tty locking that the rest is easy. -hpa