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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:24 +0200
From:      Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Data truncation on ptys
Message-ID:  <y9lsk29d7hj.fsf@deinprogramm.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100819145837.GJ2978@hoeg.nl> (Ed Schouten's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:58:37 %2B0200")
References:  <y9lk4nmeolw.fsf@deinprogramm.de> <20100819145837.GJ2978@hoeg.nl>

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Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:

> Hello Michael,
>
> * Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de> 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



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