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Followup to: <1092086245.14770.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 21:30, jdh wrote: > > While I'm sure the security issues are valid? I do question completely > > changing the functionality. I doubt changing the pts/n numbers > > helps those looking for backward compatibility at all. > > ssh breaks at 9999 which is fun too. It runs out of buffer space > although because its been properly coded it doesn't overrun it just > starts corrupting utmp > This I believe is a glibc bug, and really needs to be fixed. Unfortunately glibc's handling of utmp is just incredibly broken. -hpa - 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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