Bug#797479: write(2): returns success but discards the data

2015-11-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: severity -1 important Control: reassign -1 manpages-dev This behaviour applies only to tty (serial/pty/vt) devices in 'canonical' mode, and is intentional: https://sources.debian.net/src/linux/3.16.7-ckt11-1%2Bdeb8u3/drivers/tty/n_tty.c/#L1682 This isn't mentioned in termios(3), though,

Bug#797479: write(2): returns success but discards the data

2015-08-30 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, In certain circumstances, the write(2) syscall returns success, but the data written is not seen on the other end of the fd. For example: * What led up to the