n_tty: Output bells immediately on a full buffer
This patch causes "bell" (^G) characters (invoked when the input buffer
is full) to be immediately output rather than filling the echo buffer.
This is especially a problem when the tty is stopped and buffers fill, since
the bells do not serve their purpose of immediate notification that the
buffer cannot take further input, and they will flush all at once when the
tty is restarted.
Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/n_tty.c b/drivers/char/n_tty.c
index 4b1e96b..3922a08 100644
--- a/drivers/char/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/char/n_tty.c
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@
/* FIXME: locking needed ? */
if (tty->read_head == tty->canon_head) {
- /* echo_char_raw('\a', tty); */ /* what do you think? */
+ /* process_output('\a', tty); */ /* what do you think? */
return;
}
if (c == ERASE_CHAR(tty))
@@ -1148,10 +1148,8 @@
parmrk = (c == (unsigned char) '\377' && I_PARMRK(tty)) ? 1 : 0;
if (tty->read_cnt >= (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - parmrk - 1)) {
/* beep if no space */
- if (L_ECHO(tty)) {
- echo_char_raw('\a', tty);
- process_echoes(tty);
- }
+ if (L_ECHO(tty))
+ process_output('\a', tty);
return;
}
if (L_ECHO(tty)) {
@@ -1255,10 +1253,8 @@
}
if (c == '\n') {
if (tty->read_cnt >= N_TTY_BUF_SIZE) {
- if (L_ECHO(tty)) {
- echo_char_raw('\a', tty);
- process_echoes(tty);
- }
+ if (L_ECHO(tty))
+ process_output('\a', tty);
return;
}
if (L_ECHO(tty) || L_ECHONL(tty)) {
@@ -1280,10 +1276,8 @@
parmrk = (c == (unsigned char) '\377' && I_PARMRK(tty))
? 1 : 0;
if (tty->read_cnt >= (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - parmrk)) {
- if (L_ECHO(tty)) {
- echo_char_raw('\a', tty);
- process_echoes(tty);
- }
+ if (L_ECHO(tty))
+ process_output('\a', tty);
return;
}
/*
@@ -1320,10 +1314,8 @@
parmrk = (c == (unsigned char) '\377' && I_PARMRK(tty)) ? 1 : 0;
if (tty->read_cnt >= (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - parmrk - 1)) {
/* beep if no space */
- if (L_ECHO(tty)) {
- echo_char_raw('\a', tty);
- process_echoes(tty);
- }
+ if (L_ECHO(tty))
+ process_output('\a', tty);
return;
}
if (L_ECHO(tty)) {