On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:10, D. Bahi wrote: > did i miss the console cleanup crew? ? Not understood, 2.4 didn't get the big cleanup. > i have a UML guest command line that uses con0=fd:0,fd:1 > (or not, as this is the default for CONFIG_CON_ZERO_CHAN) > > i launch new xterms using -- xterm -e '<guest cmdline>' & > (side note - can lock it w/o this too.) Describe the other scenario please... > and users leaning on > the keyboard (most notably <enter>) while the new xterms pop > up and steal the window focus have experienced unresponsive > UML prompts. Hmm, can you exclude this is some X11 problem? I get problems in my Opera browser when a Java applet is started (which makes a Java progress window appear for a while). No, I'm not joking. Please try getting the same thing inside normal consoles, or getting the same thing with xterms and without UML.
> no further keyboard input is processed... > > uml_mconsole <id> reboot and things can be made better. > so the UML isn't locked up just the stdin.... > > i've tried to go thru stdio_init -> open_console -> line_open > to see if there was a likely place to drop a 'flush' of stdin ? I don't think stdin is flushable (but I don't understand what you mean, so I could be wrong). > before we try attaching 0 -> 1 and 1 -> 0 (line_setup_irq)... Hmm, line_setup_irq makes sure that a IRQ is triggered when a event is received on the fd. That fd is provided by the channel driver (the one in con=xterm/pty/fd). > but i don't understand it all enough <frown>. > this is redhat 9 + SKAS - NPTL 2.4.20-31 host kernel > linux 2.4.26-3um guest kernel. > thank you. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
