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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kdesu broken


On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> The correct expectation is that the select() (or read()) should have
> returned any data that it saw _before_ it returns EINTR.

Put another way: our pty code is simply _buggy_ if it returns EINTR when
there is actually data pending on a pty.

Yes, it's "buggy" only in a QoI sense - I'm sure that if you read POSIX
and SuS like a language lawyer, there is absolutely zero that says that it
can't return EINTR at any random time, or that the SIGCHLD should be
ordered wrt the other side of the pty having done a write.

But we don't do language-lawyering based on standards that inevitably
never really delve into all the nitty-gritty details. We are simply better
than that. Leave the language-lawyering to the people who can't do things
well, and then whine about their crap being "technically correct".

Linus


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