Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:45:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Pty is losing bytes |
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Yes, but then when the buffer is full, and we return the "we'll take > anything" return value, the code that was getting confused with the > "incorrect" receive_room value will still be getting confused....
But that's fine - at that point we're literally _supposed_ to drop characters: we have to, in order to see the EOLN.
But we're only supposed to drop characters IFF: - the buffer is full - we are in canon mode - we _still_ haven't seen a single EOLN in the whole buffer
If any of these three isn't true, we're not supposed to drop anything.
That's my argument.
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