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SubjectRe: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:29:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:16:54PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > That's why I'm really keen on knowing how the system of the bugreporter
> > > looks - this shouldn't happen without a very strange setup.
> >
> > I've attached to the bugzilla bug my .config (its actually for -test2)
> > and an ls -la /dev/pt*
> >
> > Is there anything else you want to know?
>
> That doesn't really help - if an application opens old-style pty's
> directly the permissions can't work. IF you care for them fill a
> bugreport to ripperx that it should use openpty() from libc which
> will fix the problem automatically.

OK. Will do.

> I was just wondering whether you were using an acient / stripped
> down libc with the pt_chown helper removed.

Nope. A pritty normal Debian Woody system.

Thanks
Andrew
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:29:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:16:54PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > That's why I'm really keen on knowing how the system of the bugreporter
> > > looks - this shouldn't happen without a very strange setup.
> >
> > I've attached to the bugzilla bug my .config (its actually for -test2)
> > and an ls -la /dev/pt*
> >
> > Is there anything else you want to know?
>
> That doesn't really help - if an application opens old-style pty's
> directly the permissions can't work. IF you care for them fill a
> bugreport to ripperx that it should use openpty() from libc which
> will fix the problem automatically.

OK. Will do.

> I was just wondering whether you were using an acient / stripped
> down libc with the pt_chown helper removed.

Nope. A pritty normal Debian Woody system.

Thanks
Andrew
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