FC2 kernel quality

Stuart Children stuart at terminus.co.uk
Fri Oct 1 14:52:46 UTC 2004


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:56, Stuart Children wrote:
> 
>>Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:16:30PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
>>>
>>>>* there is a bug when opening new PTYs; a symptom is EIO when accessing
>>>> /dev/ptmx. This bug breaks application like screen or ssh.
>>>
>>>Yep a few people are seeing this.
>>
>>Is there a bug number for this? 
> 
> unless this is with the 521 kernel please don't file one; we know that
> several pre-521 kernels suffered a bug in this but 521 is supposed to be
> the fixed one.

It is with 521 (and earlier kernels - can't remember how far back... 
it's been infrequent as I said). I'll keep an eye on upstream reports 
and wait for 2.6.9 though.

(SELinux disabled FWIW.)

Cheers

-- 
Stuart




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