Bug 214611 - UM: stdout output ceases under certain conditions

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2021-10-07 at 08:00 +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> 
> The detection that a file "behind" a device is closed at present 
> presently happens in the interrupt controller - it maps EPOLL events on 
> the fds to IRQs. All file IO gets multiplexed through there.

True. But it really just causes an IRQ event to be reported, the upper
layer is still responsible for reading and then handling the error on
the FD.

> All in all, if we add this functionality to the console/tty channels it 
> should be an extra option, because it is opposite to existing behavior.

As I pointed out earlier in the thread, somehow providing a way to get
chan->primary be not set would already provide the necessary behaviour.
I believe even when the FDs are identical (e.g. a socket), because we
separate read/write epoll and error handling.

johannes