From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:54:28 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c22opk$hq1$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1078254284.2232.385.camel@cube
Followup to: <1078254284.2232.385.camel@cube>
By author: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion,
> > which means numbers won't be reused until wraparound
> > happens. This is good for security/fault tolerance,
> > at least to some minor degree.
>
> Ouch. It's bad for display and bad for typing.
> What is easier to type?
>
> ps -t pts/6
> ps -t pts/1014962
>
> (and yes, I really type these -- I don't have a
> third hand to operate the mouse simultaneously)
>
(Programmable) tab completion, anyone?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 19:04 something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 Albert Cahalan
2004-03-02 19:54 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-03-02 22:46 ` Edgar Toernig
2004-03-02 23:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-03-03 4:12 Albert Cahalan
2004-03-01 18:45 Nuno Monteiro
2004-03-01 19:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-02 5:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-02 14:52 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-03-02 15:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-02 17:47 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-03-02 16:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-02 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 2:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
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