Re: [PATCH man-pages] pty.7: clarify asynchronous nature of PTY IO.

2015-05-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 6 May 2015 at 15:36, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 05/06/2015 08:26 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 05/06/2015 12:59 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >>> Peter: does this seem reasonable and accurate to you? >> >> I've got the patch sitting in a branch, in case Peter has suggestions for >> changes

Re: [PATCH man-pages] pty.7: clarify asynchronous nature of PTY IO.

2015-05-06 Thread Peter Hurley
On 05/06/2015 08:26 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 05/06/2015 12:59 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >> Peter: does this seem reasonable and accurate to you? > > I've got the patch sitting in a branch, in case Peter has suggestions for > changes. This is fine with me. Regards, Peter Hurley --

Re: [PATCH man-pages] pty.7: clarify asynchronous nature of PTY IO.

2015-05-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Neil, On 05/06/2015 12:59 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > > A PTY is not like a pipe - there may be delayed between > data being written at one end and it being available at the other. > This became particularly apparent after > commit f95499c3030f ("n_tty: Don't wait for buffer work in read() loop")