Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:02:17 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 |
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> "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 >
I think /dev/tty, used in the context of any process, always refers to the current processes terminal. You should not have to "hard-code" a particular terminal.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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