Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:41:51 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: fail xterm_open when we have no $DISPLAY
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:24:29PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:

> Thanks for drawing attention on this! I hadn't had the time to dig
> this out...  for now reasonably correct

it's a partial solution, in general more is required

> but no time to review it properly now. The review would probably try
> to find a more direct fix to this...

catch the xterm process dying, up(&data->sem), and -EIO all requests
from that point onwards I guess.  That applies for some of the other
channels too, some of the code would probably be abstracted a little
and generalized I guess.


   --cw
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