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SubjectRe: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
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>>>>> "Peter" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

Peter> As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion, which
Peter> means numbers won't be reused until wraparound happens.

Ouch. I've been using the tty name in $HISTFILE for some time now
(at least on laptops and workstations); I do not see any reasonable
alternative to prevent overwriting while still saving history.

Will patching in the old behavior wrt re-use, while not disrupting
the other improvements, be a lot of work? I've looked thru the src,
but haven't yet spotted the point where the new pis number is chosen.

-JimC



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