From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] pty/tty functions for BSD too
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:42:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080818194238.GB20308@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580808181108w4c7822b0k3817266413218419@mail.gmail.com>
Blue Swirl wrote:
> And ptsname() is used to get the pty name, which uses either hard
> coded buffer length of _PATH_DEVPTS or _PATH_TTY:
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc
>
> OpenBSD forces the name to be in format "/dev/ptyXX":
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libutil/pty.c?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> NetBSD is similar, except also /dev/ttyXX is possible:
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libutil/pty.c?rev=1.29&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
Other platforms use slightly longer names, but I've never heard of one
that wouldn't fit into PATH_MAX - assuming PATH_MAX is sane.
I'd still use ptsname()/ptsname_r() when available though.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-18 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-18 10:59 [Qemu-devel] pty/tty functions for BSD too Samuel Thibault
2008-08-18 14:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-18 14:23 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-08-18 15:12 ` Warner Losh
2008-08-18 17:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-18 16:16 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-18 16:26 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-08-18 16:57 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-18 18:08 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-18 18:20 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-08-18 19:42 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-08-19 10:33 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-08-19 11:21 ` François Revol
2008-08-19 11:40 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2008-08-19 12:55 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-08-19 19:17 ` Klaus Heinz
2008-08-21 18:16 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-19 12:35 ` Todd T. Fries
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