Re: b32ff1a86 Breaks OSX and FreeBSD

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 12/22/19 12:48 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I just did a run with WRITE_PAD=0 on NetBSD/8 amd64, running bare metal
> on a fairly modern machine (5 years old, 4 cores, 24G of ram) that seems
> pretty fast.
> 
> So I concur that there must be a bug lurking someplace.  This smells
> like the writes to the pty master side not waiting or not returning
> partial writes correctly (or having those partial writes accounted for).

If you are using scons check or similar things - the default seems to be
tcp, not pty. My first idea was that the pty stuff is broken, but after
realizing we are using tcp, I doubt its an issue with the transport. I
assume tcp is well enough tested on all BSD variants.


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