Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:57:31 -0400 | From | kern1@rich-pau ... | Subject | EOF and ptys |
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I notice that when one closes a pty, rather than the master side'd read returning 0, it's an EIO. Seems to be this code, from n_tty.c. if (test_bit(TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, &tty->flags)) { retval = -EIO; break; } I'm not an expert, it might be correct, but I thought I should point it out.
Regards, Rich Paul
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