Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:02:58 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs |
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:43:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > That's the magic use uid/gid of the process calling devfs_Register flag > > I killed. With a big HEADSUP and explanation on lkml.. > > So what is the impact here? That libc5 will break if the user is using > devfs and old-style pty's?
If he removed the pt_chown logic that is present with a stock libc5, yes. I wouldn't know why someone would do that, though.
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. - 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 10:43:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > That's the magic use uid/gid of the process calling devfs_Register flag > > I killed. With a big HEADSUP and explanation on lkml.. > > So what is the impact here? That libc5 will break if the user is using > devfs and old-style pty's?
If he removed the pt_chown logic that is present with a stock libc5, yes. I wouldn't know why someone would do that, though.
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. - 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/
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