> Before the patch, I believe tty_reopen() would return -EIO because > the TTY_CLOSING flag is set. After the patch, tty_open() blocks > on tty_lock() before calling tty_reopen(). AFAICT, this is independent > of O_NONBLOCK. That would be a bug then. Returning -EIO is fine (if unfriendly). The O_NONBLOCK can't block in this case though because the port could take a long time to give up trying to dribble its bits (up to 30 seconds or so) Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
