[PATCH] getty: Wait until all output written to stdout has been transmitted

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 24 January 2011 00:06, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sunday 23 January 2011 21:55, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > >>>>> "Denys" == Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> writes:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  Rich> Is there a reason you're not considering the alarm approach?
> >  Rich> alarm+drain will not hang at all if the buffer drains immediately.
> >  Rich> sleep+flush or usleep+flush will *always* sleep at least some
> >  Rich> interval, which is annoying to the user.
> >  >> 
> >  >> Indeed. It seems vastly superior, and only slightly more complicated.
> > 
> >  Denys> What happened to "we are busybox, we like simple solutions"?
> >  Denys> Rob periodically grills me that I am making it too complicated...
> > 
> > I agree that we shouldn't make stuff too complicated - E.G. lets not add
> > config options to make the user choose if he wants tcdrain or the amount
> > of time to sleep before tcflush, but E.G. my 4-line alarm() + tcdrain
> > patch doesn't add much complexity (and it's all local), and it solves a
> > real world issue.
> 
> It also breaks -t SEC option.

I committed a fix with usleep(100*1000) for now - it's better than what
we have now.


If you feel strongly about needing alarm-based fix, please send a patch
for review.

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