From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:21:45 +0200
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       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Friday 24 July 2009, Ray Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > A recent kernel change broke kdesu (from KDE 4.2) on my test boxes.  ISTR a
> > discussion about that, but I can't find it right now.  Any clues?
> 
> See the thread starting here: ("possible regression with pty.c commit")
>    http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/11/125

Thanks for the pointer.

Well, I thought we were expected to avoid breaking existing user space, even
if that were buggy etc.  

Best,
Rafael
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