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Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:20:32 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: 1.3.13?
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:10:34PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>Sunday, 04 August, 2002 Christopher Faylor cgf AT redhat DOT com wrote:
>CF> I'd like to release 1.3.13.  The outstanding issues that I am aware of
>CF> are Conrad's UNIX domain socket patch and Thomas's pthread patches.
>
>CF> Is there anything else?
>
>Current tty code has a bug when canonical mode is turned off, vmin==0
> and vtime > 0. The patch seems obvious -- just remove the code
>that specially sets waiting time to infinite if vmin==0. I'm just
>wondering what made me write this lines of code, and until i fully
>understand the reason (it might be simple brain overheating, after all
>:), i'm somewhat reluctant to make this change.

Did you ever convince yourself that this was a reasonable fix, Egor?
The vmin and vtime stuff has always made my head hurt so I can't offer
much help, I'm afraid.

I would like to get a new release out the door, though.  Especially since
I need to get something new released to accommodate gcc 3.2.

cgf

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