From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrew.lunn@ascom.ch
Subject: Re: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:02:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030902190258.A15601@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030902104340.1e360f1b.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:43:40AM -0700
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > That's the magic use uid/gid of the process calling devfs_Register flag
> > I killed. With a big HEADSUP and explanation on lkml..
>
> So what is the impact here? That libc5 will break if the user is using
> devfs and old-style pty's?
If he removed the pt_chown logic that is present with a stock libc5,
yes. I wouldn't know why someone would do that, though.
That's why I'm really keen on knowing how the system of the bugreporter
looks - this shouldn't happen without a very strange setup.
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > That's the magic use uid/gid of the process calling devfs_Register flag
> > I killed. With a big HEADSUP and explanation on lkml..
>
> So what is the impact here? That libc5 will break if the user is using
> devfs and old-style pty's?
If he removed the pt_chown logic that is present with a stock libc5,
yes. I wouldn't know why someone would do that, though.
That's why I'm really keen on knowing how the system of the bugreporter
looks - this shouldn't happen without a very strange setup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-02 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 10:42 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs Andrew Lunn
2003-09-02 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-02 17:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-02 17:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-02 17:43 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-02 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-09-02 18:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2003-09-02 18:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-02 18:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2003-09-02 18:08 ` Andrew Lunn
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2003-09-03 2:52 Albert Cahalan
2003-09-03 6:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
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