From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pts having the same device number.
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 02:51:50 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c64nk6$iu7$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40859891.8080208@dlfp.org
Followup to: <40859891.8080208@dlfp.org>
By author: matthieu <mat_@dlfp.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
> on 2.6.4 I have seen that two pts device can have the same number :
> $ls -l /dev/pts/
> total 0
> crw--w---- 1 mat tty 136, 2 2004-04-20 23:15 2562
> crw--w---- 1 mat tty 136, 2 2004-04-20 23:15 2818
>
> Is that normal ?
>
Your libc or ls is old. They actually have the device numbers
136,2562 and 136,2818 but you only see the bottom 8 bits:
2562 & 255 = 2
2818 & 255 = 2
This doesn't affect proper operation, it just affects the output from
ls.
-hpa
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2004-04-20 21:39 pts having the same device number matthieu
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