Apologies; I overlooked that detail: Signed-off-by: Ashley Jonathan <jonathan.ash...@altran.com>
Regards, -- Jon Ashley -----Original Message----- From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonz...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini Sent: 11 January 2016 09:16 To: Ashley Jonathan; qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-triv...@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep pty slave file descriptor open until the master is closed On 11/12/2015 12:29, Ashley Jonathan wrote: > I have experienced a minor difficulty using QEMU with the "-serial > pty" option: > > If a process opens the slave pts device, writes data to it, then > immediately closes it, the data doesn't reliably get delivered to the > emulated serial port. This seems to be because a read of the master > pty device returns EIO on Linux if no process has the pts device open, > even when data is waiting "in the pipe". > > A fix seems to be for QEMU to keep the pts file descriptor open until > the pty is closed, as per the below patch. You need to include a "Signed-off-by: Ashley Jonathan <jonathan.ash...@altran.com>" line in the commit message, meaning that you have read and understood the "Developer Certificate of Origin": http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f#n297 Just reply to this message with the above line. Paolo
