Re: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:42:12PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> I've attached two possible patches to the bugzilla bug. The first one
> causes the slave devices to be created in devfs at start up. The
> second one makes it work more like 2.4 when the slave device is only
> created when the master device is opened.

The first patch looks okay.

> Both patches suffer from a problem. The slave is always only RW
> root. 2.4 sets the owner of the slave to that of the process opening
> the master. I cannot see a way to make this happen with 2.6-test. 

Well, that's why we have UNIX98 ptys.  My preferred fix for this
issue would be to just axe traditional ptys, although this would probably
make it us incompatible with libc5.

Why aren't you using the new-style ptys?

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