Re: watch(8) stuck in devdrn

On 6/1/07, Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> The problem doesn't seem specific to tty sub system.
> I have similar problem with scsi_target.
>
> On 6/1/07, Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 31 May 2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >
> > > On 2007-05-31 18:38, Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >> I was using watch(8) this afternoon, and on trying to quit, ran into this:
> > >>
> > >>   peppercorn:~> ps axl | grep watch
> > >>     0 14200 14194   0  -8  0  3416  1056 devdrn D     p2-   0:00.01 watch -W tt
> > >>
> > >> It was running on a pty, but the target tty was ttyv1.
> > >
> > > If you have kern.pts.enable=1 you may have to use:
> > > http://hg.hellug.gr/freebsd/src-keramida/file/944ac3982de1/pty-devdrn
> > >
> > > Without this patch and kern.pts.enable=1 all ptys seem to get stuck in
> > > devdrn on process exit.  AFAIK, Kostik Belousov and Tor Egge know this and
> > > are already working on a fix:
> >
> > I'm not using pts.enable on this box.
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
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mount_smbfs has been having this problem for quite a while too.

Jiawei Ye

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