Re: lost ptys?
Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au)
Sun, 7 Jun 1998 08:57:57 +1000 (EST)
Peter Benie wrote:
> Herbert Xu writes ("lost ptys?"):
> > I'm getting lost ptys regularly on quite a few machines where telnet
> > and ssh are used. Basically there will be /dev/ptyp? files which aren't used
> > by any process but opening it will return EIO. This is on a 2.0.33 kernel.
> > Has anybody else seen this?
>
> The cause of this is almost certain to be that you started a daemon by
> hand, and that daemon didn't separate itself from its environment
> properly by closing stdin, stdout and stderr. You can use lsof or
> /proc/pid/fd/* to work out which process has the pty open. Personally,
> I wouldn't worry about it.
Yes, looks like I only checked the /dev/ptyp? devices, and forgot about
/dev/ttyp?. Turns out kerneld still had the /dev/ttyp? device open. Thanks
for the response.
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