From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 12 00:51:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07492 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07483 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10559; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:50:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27274; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:50:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA09372; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:45:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604120745.JAA09372@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fbsd pty bug To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:45:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: chuck@bus.net (Chuck O'Donnell) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Chuck O'Donnell" at Apr 11, 96 09:25:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Chuck O'Donnell wrote: > I have forwarded your message to D. Hugh Redelmeier , > who is one of the authors of jove. The comments you referred to are his > and I am not qualified to answer. > > As a side note, if jove were to have retried the write with the fbsd pty > bug, this would have made for some real trouble! But I believe that they > will make the proper changes to jove now that it has been brought to their > attention. As another side note, i wrote a commit by Bruce Evans last night who apparently found & fixed at least one of the underlying bugs. Can you try it out? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)