From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266630AbUHQTeL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:34:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266631AbUHQTeL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:34:11 -0400 Received: from h-68-165-86-241.dllatx37.covad.net ([68.165.86.241]:38239 "EHLO sol.microgate.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266630AbUHQTeH (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: <41225D16.2050702@microgate.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:31:34 -0500 From: Paul Fulghum User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ismail_d=F6nmez?= CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems? References: <2a4f155d040817070854931025@mail.gmail.com> <412247FF.5040301@microgate.com> <2a4f155d0408171116688a87f1@mail.gmail.com> <4122501B.7000106@microgate.com> <2a4f155d04081712005fdcdd9b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a4f155d04081712005fdcdd9b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ismail dönmez wrote: > But some other problems remain and the real > issue is /dev/tty is a directory now! : > > > cartman@southpark:~$ ls -al /dev/tty > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2004-08-18 00:52 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 2004-08-17 21:53 ../ > crw------- 1 root root 3, 10 2004-08-18 00:52 s > crw------- 1 root root 3, 0 2004-08-18 00:52 s0 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 1 2004-08-18 00:52 s1 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 2 2004-08-18 00:52 s2 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 3 2004-08-18 00:52 s3 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 4 2004-08-18 00:52 s4 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 5 2004-08-18 00:52 s5 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 6 2004-08-18 00:52 s6 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 7 2004-08-18 00:52 s7 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 8 2004-08-18 00:52 s8 > crw------- 1 root root 3, 9 2004-08-18 00:52 s9 > > > And this breaks many applications. Any idea why /dev/tty is a directory now? That does not look right. Char dev 3 is the pty major. This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch. Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file: mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0 -- Paul Fulghum paulkf@microgate.com