Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:28:44 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup prohibition of direct opening for unix98 pty master |
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:22:31PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > cleanup hack added in v2.6.27-3203-g15582d3 > > comment from that patch: > > : pty: If the administrator creates a device for a ptmx slave we should not error > : > : The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any > : other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not > : the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics > : > : Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> > : Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Any reason why you didn't include these two people on this patch? Perhaps they might wish to review it...
greg k-h
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