Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:57:15 -0400 | From | "Albert Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty? |
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On 7/9/06, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
I'm kidding of course. Putting the names in a file is crap. This is what procps-1.x.xx did long ago. Everybody hated it. You'll never handle chroot correctly.
Just do /proc/*/tty links and all will be good. This even handles the case of two different names for the same dev_t.
If people seriously want to bring back the crap, then I can design something tolerable. It would support mmap MAP_SHARED, allowing live updates so that "top" can work nicely. - 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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