Re: Persistent problem with wait_until_sent timeout parameter type mismatch

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On 2009-08-21, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I seem to have run into a problem which people have been
> pointing out for years, but never gets fixed.
>
> In tty_driver.h, the low-level driver routine wait_until_set()
> function takes an "int" as a timeout value:
[...]
> But, in tty_ioclt.c in the tty_wait_unti_sent() function, the
> timeout is a "long":
[...]
> This is fine on 32-bit systems, where "int" and "long" are
> equivalent, but it results in breakage on 64-bit systems.

Is this not the correct forum in which to report bugs in the
tty layer code?

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