Strange /dev/tty behaviour on 7.0-PRELEASE

[Kostik Belousov]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:34:37AM +0100, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008 1:08 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > After your post, I could imagine the almost plausible scenario how to
> > get more then one /dev/tty in the listing, but the other behaviour that
> > looks like deadlock, isn't.
> >
> 
> Well, your commit here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/tty_pty.c.diff?r1=1.155;r2=1.156
> 
> gratiously provided to me by Peter Wemm solved the problem I had. I think we
> are "talking past each other" with the lockup due to my bad choice of words:
> The kernel did not deadlock, but a process executed after having multiple
> tty's made that process hang with the ktrace I posted. The kernel itself
> were still running fine though anything in need of /dev/tty would hang. I
> hope this clears up the misconceptions.
> 
> The patch fixes my problem completely. Thanks!

Thank you for confirming that the problem solved.
I will MFC the change shortly.
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