From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:54:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4044BC48.7060903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u1175miy.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
>>>>>>"Peter" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
> Peter> As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion, which
> Peter> means numbers won't be reused until wraparound happens.
>
> Ouch. I've been using the tty name in $HISTFILE for some time now
> (at least on laptops and workstations); I do not see any reasonable
> alternative to prevent overwriting while still saving history.
>
????
> Will patching in the old behavior wrt re-use, while not disrupting
> the other improvements, be a lot of work? I've looked thru the src,
> but haven't yet spotted the point where the new pis number is chosen.
Not a lot of work, but the performance would suffer big time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-01 18:45 something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 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 [this message]
2004-03-02 22:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 2:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-03-02 19:04 Albert Cahalan
2004-03-02 19:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-02 22:46 ` Edgar Toernig
2004-03-02 23:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-03 4:12 Albert Cahalan
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