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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:23:44 -0700
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern tty.c
Message-ID:  <20000430112344.A13987@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005010354410.2953-100000@alphplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 04:11:56AM %2B1000
References:  <200004301600.JAA18945@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005010354410.2953-100000@alphplex.bde.org>

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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 04:11:56AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> This is all very broken.  It used to be possible to set the drainwait timeout
> using comcontrol and have the setting live across closes.  /etc/rc.serial
> has examples of setting it.  Now, the setting gets clobbered in ttyopen()
> not only for first opens, but for open of the termios line discipline, i.e.,
> for every open(2) and for every reentry to the termios line discipline
> (TIOCSETD to TTYDISC).  This bug was introduced in the previous commit.
> The sysctl just allows changing the default value that is used to clobber
> the setting.

BTW, you say nothing when I send initial patch for review.
Probably ttyopen not the best place for setting t_timeout to its default value.
What place you suggest as better one?

> Sysctls shouldn't be used in device drivers.  Here the default should only
> be used if the timeout has not already been set.  Changing the default
> using sysctl will have little or no effect effect after the system has
> warmed up, since most or all ttys will have had their timeouts set.

I disagree.
1) This sysctl supposed to be called early in rc.sysctl, before any tty device 
comes up.
2) You forget about ptys which are open/closed often, it is needed mainly for 
them (hanging TCP connections)
3) In current variant (with ttyopen), even ttyv* change timeout after loggin 
out.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.pp.ru>
http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/


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