[ On Monday, October 8, 2001 at 18:38:48 (-0400), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: 1.5.2 and ksh?
>
> the problem is that the ttysleep() in the top half of ttioctl() gets
> interrupted and returns ERESTART.  ptyioctl() incorrectly interprets
> this as "no such ioctl" (see nullioctl(), which returns -1) and ends
> up returning ENOTTY.
> 
> i'm in the middle of overhauling the ioctl code in the kernel to
> eliminate this problem.

Hmmmm.... that's quite interesting.  I had a sneaking suspicion it was a
kernel bug.

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