From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267415AbUHJEIR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:08:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267409AbUHJEIR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:08:17 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:61903 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267415AbUHJEIP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:08:15 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: BUG: bsd pts now climbs continuously Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <1092086245.14770.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1092110854 30623 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2004 04:07:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:07:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <1092086245.14770.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> By author: Alan Cox In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 21:30, jdh wrote: > > While I'm sure the security issues are valid? I do question completely > > changing the functionality. I doubt changing the pts/n numbers > > helps those looking for backward compatibility at all. > > ssh breaks at 9999 which is fun too. It runs out of buffer space > although because its been properly coded it doesn't overrun it just > starts corrupting utmp > This I believe is a glibc bug, and really needs to be fixed. Unfortunately glibc's handling of utmp is just incredibly broken. -hpa