From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pts bug? and keyboard on kvm
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:02:36 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2rqqs$pnc$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.58.0403111109290.21406@pina-colada.ucf.ics.uci.edu
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403111109290.21406@pina-colada.ucf.ics.uci.edu>
By author: Edmund Lau <edlau@ucf.ics.uci.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I just upgraded to 2.6.4. Is it normal for /dev/pts numbers to keep
> increasing now? With 2.6.3, I could log in or create an xterm and a pts
> would be assigned. Then when it was released, another process could reuse
> that number. Now, it seems it just keeps incrementing. Has this changed?
>
Yes. We may make a slight change to this, due to the incredibly
braindamaged way glibc and xterm handles utmp, however.
-hpa
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2004-03-11 19:25 pts bug? and keyboard on kvm Edmund Lau
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