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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:06:21 -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:  <20000430120621.A22259@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000430112344.A13987@freebsd.org>; from ache@freebsd.org on Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:23:44AM -0700
References:  <200004301600.JAA18945@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005010354410.2953-100000@alphplex.bde.org> <20000430112344.A13987@freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:23:44AM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> 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?

Probably we can initialize t_timeout not to 0 but to -1 in upper layer,
then use in ttyopen something like this:

	if (tp->t_timeout < 0)
		tp->t_timeout = drainwait * hz;

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


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