Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:45:31 +0100 | From | Christian Ullrich <> | Subject | Problem with devfs and Unix98 pty |
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The automatic saving and reloading of permissions and ownerships by devfsd is not compatible with Unix98 ptys (in /dev/pts).
Imagine a user A trying to get a pty, for example by starting an xterm. If there's a saved inode /dev-state/pts/<whatever> owned by user B, and the next free number in /dev/pts equals <whatever>, devfsd will replace the automatically created inode with the saved, which is owned by B. So A does not have any chance at all to get another pty.
I propose to add the following lines to the default devfsd.conf, just above the last three lines:
REGISTER ^pts/.* IGNORE CHANGE ^pts/.* IGNORE CREATE ^pts/.* IGNORE
This fixed the problem for me. If you know a better solution, please let me know.
-- Christian Ullrich Registrierter Linux-User #125183
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