Mike (mwester) wrote: > the data structures to see if unread data is present. But this brings > up the problem of what do you do if the application that is supposed to > be reading the data has gone and borked itself?
FWIW, I think it would be acceptable to abandon suspend if there is pending data and there is a designated recipient for that data (i.e., the tty is open). If gsmd or equivalent is really stuck (which is in itself a critical failure), just killing it would clear the problem. - Werner
