Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 | From | "James H. Cloos Jr." <> | Date | Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:52:37 -0500 |
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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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