Hi Peter, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 05:35:10PM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote: > I realize that. But hanging up the tty that is /dev/console only affects > open descriptors that are not /dev/console. > > So readers using the /dev/ttyS0 file descriptor will see a hungup fops, > but readers using /dev/console will not, and /dev/ttyS0 will _not_ > be closed or released because of the still-open descriptor on /dev/console.
I see. > Ok, so the process sleeping on /dev/console read() should have received > SIGHUP, which would wake the process and cause it to exit the > n_tty_read() loop, thus dropping the ldisc reference it holds. > Did it ignore the signal or perhaps the signal is masked? Not masked on the test case (attached). Sent sighup manually and it did receive it. -- Aristeu #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <termios.h> #include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> static char *default_console = "/dev/console"; static char *default_tty = "/dev/ttyS0"; struct data { char *console; char *tty; }; static void *reader(void *d) { struct data *data = (struct data *)d; struct termios old_termio; char buff[512]; int fd = -1, rc; while (1) { if (fd == -1) { fd = open(data->console, O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) exit(1); if (tcgetattr(fd, &old_termio) == -1) exit(1); old_termio.c_lflag = ICANON; if (tcsetattr(fd, 0, &old_termio) == -1) exit(1); } rc = read(fd, buff, sizeof(buff)); if (rc < 0 && errno == EAGAIN) continue; close(fd); fd = -1; } } void launch(void *(*fn)(void *), struct data *data) { if (fork() == 0) fn(data); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { struct data data; int fd; fd = open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR); close(0); close(1); close(2); ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY, 1); data.console = default_console; data.tty = default_tty; launch(reader, &data); waitpid(-1, NULL, 0); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/