From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jdh <root@hend.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: bsd pts now climbs continuously
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:17:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092086245.14770.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0408091609100.31211-200000@link>
On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 21:30, jdh wrote:
> While I'm sure the security issues are valid? I do question completely
> changing the functionality. I doubt changing the pts/n numbers
> helps those looking for backward compatibility at all.
ssh breaks at 9999 which is fun too. It runs out of buffer space
although because its been properly coded it doesn't overrun it just
starts corrupting utmp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-09 20:30 BUG: bsd pts now climbs continuously jdh
2004-08-09 21:17 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-10 4:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-10 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-10 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-09 22:48 ` Andrew Morton
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