pts/X counts on

pts/X counts on

[Miek Gieben]

Hello,

I'm seeing to following (obscure) thing happening:

I open an xterm, it gets the pseudo term: pts/1
I close the term and open a new one: pts/2, in stead
of pts/1.

Like this:

USER     TTY      FROM   LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
miekg    pts/1    arena  19:57    3.00s  0.24s  0.11s vi bla
miekg    pts/4    arena  20:03    0.00s  0.06s  0.00s w
$ logout

login again:

USER     TTY      FROM   LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
miekg    pts/1    arena  19:57    3.00s  0.25s  0.12s vi bla
miekg    pts/5    arena  20:03    0.00s  0.05s  0.00s w
        ^^^^^^^

It just counts on.... 

I'm using devfs on 2.6.4-rc3, I first noticed this in 2.6.3.
(all 2.6.4-rcX have it),

Does anybody know why this is happening?

grtz Miek

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Re: pts/X counts on

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:09:02PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> It just counts on.... 
> I'm using devfs on 2.6.4-rc3, I first noticed this in 2.6.3.
> (all 2.6.4-rcX have it),
> Does anybody know why this is happening?

This change in behavior was intentional. It should not affect your
applications. The change was part of a patch that made pty's
completely dynamic.


-- wli

Re: pts/X counts on

[Miek Gieben]

[On 10 Mar, @20:24, William wrote in "Re: pts/X counts on ..."]
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:09:02PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > It just counts on.... 
> > I'm using devfs on 2.6.4-rc3, I first noticed this in 2.6.3.
> > (all 2.6.4-rcX have it),
> > Does anybody know why this is happening?
> 
> This change in behavior was intentional. It should not affect your
> applications. The change was part of a patch that made pty's
> completely dynamic.

ah, it's a feature :-) But I'm not seeing it on all my systems....(running
2.6.3)

Thanks,

grtz Miek

Re: pts/X counts on

[William Lee Irwin III]

[On 10 Mar, @20:24, William wrote in "Re: pts/X counts on ..."]
>> This change in behavior was intentional. It should not affect your
>> applications. The change was part of a patch that made pty's
>> completely dynamic.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:33:40PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> ah, it's a feature :-) But I'm not seeing it on all my systems....(running
> 2.6.3)
> Thanks,
> grtz Miek

Odd. Maybe it's -mm vs. non -mm.


-- wli

Re: pts/X counts on

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20040310193554.GM655@holomorphy.com>
By author:    William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> [On 10 Mar, @20:24, William wrote in "Re: pts/X counts on ..."]
> >> This change in behavior was intentional. It should not affect your
> >> applications. The change was part of a patch that made pty's
> >> completely dynamic.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:33:40PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > ah, it's a feature :-) But I'm not seeing it on all my systems....(running
> > 2.6.3)
> > Thanks,
> > grtz Miek
> 
> Odd. Maybe it's -mm vs. non -mm.
> 

It is.

	-hpa