Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:31:33 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty? |
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On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:26:19PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > There are 16 tty major numbers (as of the Linux 1.1 kernel, > or thereabouts) with 256 minors each, and the names are 8 > characters long. That makes for a 32 KiB file; procps will > verify the length. Major numbers are to be stored in the > following order: > > 2,3,4,5,19,20,22,23,24,25,32,33,46,47,48,49 > > The structure is thus like this: > > char psdevtab[16][256][8]
So it basically breaks on 2.x kernels because (eg) you don't include major 204 as a tty major. Plus, if you insist that there are only N tty major numbers, you break as soon as another tty major gets added.
Try again.
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