Re: tty->name conversion?

[Taral <taral@taral.net>]

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:43:16PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Taral writes:
> 
> > I noticed that ps still relies on device numbers to determine tty, since
> > /proc/*/stat only exports the device number. Is there any way to get the
> > device name? I noticed that it is not present in tty_struct anywhere
> > (proc_pid_stat() uses task->tty->device, which is a kdev_t).
> >
> > This would be useful to consider if we ever intend to create real
> > unnumbered character/block devices.
> 
> This isn't quite true, at least for the version shipped with Debian.

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Thanks for your reply. It still remains, however, that for processes
that you do not own, it has to guess, viz:

  319 taral    vc/1     S    Jul12 -zsh
  320 root     tty2     S    Jul12 /sbin/getty 38400 vc/2

Notice that the getty is listed as tty2, even though it opened
/dev/vc/2.

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