Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:06:45 -0700 | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Subject | Re: tty->count ? |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o writes: > From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 10:39:29 +0100 (BST) > > > Warning: dev (04:da) tty->count(2) != #fd's(3) in tty_open > > Warning: dev (04:da) tty->count(2) != #fd's(3) in release_dev > > > > That looks like the race condition on ttys (remember the one that caused > some of the rocketport fun). Im not sure when Ted put the fix back into the > 1.3.x -> 2.0 code for generic tty drivers > > The standard problem here is that you have more than one device file in > /dev referring to a pty using both the old major number #4 and the new > major numbers (#2 and #3). This causes the debugging code to screw up, > since it doesn't realize that a tty could be opened from two different > sets of (major,minor) numbers. > > - Ted
This seems like a very radical change. On my system running 2.0.0, the ttys and ptys are in major 4, the floppy is major 2, and the IDE disks are major 3. Are ttys/ptys sharing major numbers with these devices, or do I need to completely remake a whole bunch of my device entries?
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