Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:35:54 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ 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.
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