L'explication vulgarisée tirée de l'article LWN : "The problem with kdesu appears to be a KDE bug; the application would read too much data, then wonder why the next read didn't have what it wanted. This code worked with the older TTY code, but broke with 2.6.31. There is probably no way to fix it which doesn't saddle the kernel with maintaining weird legacy bug-compatibility code - something the TTY layer does not need more of. "
[^] # Re: kdesu ?
Posté par patrick_g (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal Alan Cox jette l'éponge. Évalué à 4.
L'explication vulgarisée tirée de l'article LWN : "The problem with kdesu appears to be a KDE bug; the application would read too much data, then wonder why the next read didn't have what it wanted. This code worked with the older TTY code, but broke with 2.6.31. There is probably no way to fix it which doesn't saddle the kernel with maintaining weird legacy bug-compatibility code - something the TTY layer does not need more of. "