The lock usage was described with its introduction in commit
9005b2a758. It was necessary because PTY
write() shares more state than GIOChannel with other
operations.
This made char-pty a bit different from other chardev, that only lock
around the write operation. This was apparent in commit
7b3621f47a, which introduced an idle
source to avoid the lock.
By removing the PTY chardev state sharing on write() with previous
patch, we can remove the lock and the idle source.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190206174328.9736-7-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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