From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 08:33:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669D010656AB for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:33:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sperber@deinprogramm.de) Received: from h615406.serverkompetenz.net (h615406.serverkompetenz.net [81.169.143.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248E98FC24 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from h615406.serverkompetenz.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h615406.serverkompetenz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC8417072; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eta.local (p5B203E92.dip.t-dialin.net [91.32.62.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by h615406.serverkompetenz.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A186B17070; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eta.local (Postfix, from userid 2246) id 0191F804379; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Sperber To: Ed Schouten References: <20100819145837.GJ2978@hoeg.nl> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20100819145837.GJ2978@hoeg.nl> (Ed Schouten's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:58:37 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (darwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Data truncation on ptys X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:33:31 -0000 Ed Schouten writes: > Hello Michael, > > * Michael Sperber wrote: >> I'm one of the maintainers of XEmacs, and I've been running into a >> persistent problem with subprocesses / ptys since at least 5.x. (If this >> is not the right list, I'd appreciate a pointer to a more appropriate >> forum.) > > Very quick question. Does this problem still occur on FreeBSD 8.x? > FreeBSD 8.x has an entirely new TTY layer, which includes a new > pseudo-terminal driver. Huh - no! So I guess this means I can put it down to an OS bug rather than a bug in XEmacs. (Let me know if it's still worth filing a PR.) Thanks! -- Regards, Mike