From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 12 04:40:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA27164 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from edna.bus.net (edna.bus.net [207.41.24.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA27159 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by edna.bus.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA00710; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 07:37:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 07:37:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chuck O'Donnell" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: fbsd pty bug In-Reply-To: <199604120745.JAA09372@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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? I applied a patch from the diff sent by Bruce. This fixed everything. I had incorrectly assumed there were two bugs: one causing incorrect returns of the number of bytes written, and one doing multiples of the write. As you probably know, the jove editor ignored the return of `0 bytes written', while the shell did not, explaining the multiples. I will need to upgrade to current. Thank you for the time you spent on this. Regards, Chuck