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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] kdesu broken
    On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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    > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
    > >
    > > Nor can we revert several patches because the ppp stuff means going back
    > > to about 2.6.28 or so for the entire tty layer plus some of the DoS and
    > > null pointer races go back to 2.2 or 2.0 8(.
    >
    > The thing is, breaking ppp and reverting at least to 2.6.30 behavior.
    > Since it's better than the _current_ breakage.
    >
    > > We can use the two line slightly imperfect quickfix which people reported
    > > does fix their problem and I'm tempted to go with that for 2.6.31 because
    > > it works for the real world cases that matter.
    >
    > Umm. Which ones? People have reported kdesu and emacs breaking. Last I
    > saw, the emacs breakage wasn't fixed by any of the patches seen so far.

    Aneesh verified the tty->low_latency patch fixed emacs (Sunday mail in
    the thread "Re: [Regression] kdesu broken")



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