On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 04:31:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:35:43 +0100 > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Chris Brannon, le ven. 15 mars 2019 18:19:39 -0700, a ecrit: > > > What kind of reproducer do you need here? It's straightforward to > > > reproduce in casual use, at least with a software synthesizer. > > > > we need a walk-through of the kind of operation that > > produces the issue. It does not have to be reproducible each time it is > > done. Perhaps (I really don't know what that bug is about actually) it > > is a matter of putting text in the selection buffer, and try to paste it > > 100 times, and once every 10 times it will be garbled, for instance. > > paste_selection still says > > /* Insert the contents of the selection buffer into the > * queue of the tty associated with the current console. > * Invoked by ioctl(). > * > * Locking: called without locks. Calls the ldisc wrongly with > * unsafe methods, > */ > > from which I deduce that with everyone using X nobody ever bothered to > fix it. So before you look too hard at the speakup code you might want to > review the interaction with selection.c too. This looks like https://bugs.debian.org/849474 which causes a lockup, and for which Bill Allombert wrote a nice reproducer. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Did ya know that typing "test -j8" instead of "ctest -j8" ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ will make your testsuite pass much faster, and fix bugs? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
