ed 2008-08-24 10:01:22 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
.ObsoleteFiles.inc
libexec Makefile
Removed files:
libexec/pt_chown Makefile pt_chown.c
Log:
SVN rev 182105 on 2008-08-24 10:01:22Z by ed
Remove the now
* Ed Schouten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've done tests with FreeBSD 5.2.1, FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0 jails.
All of them still work if I remove pt_chown.
Just a small sidenote: on FreeBSD 5.2.1 openpty() and posix_openpt()
still work like it should, but ptsname() (and thus grantpt()) are
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Ed Schouten wrote:
Remove the now unneeded pt_chown utility.
Before we had a posix_openpt() that allocated PTY's with proper
permissions in place, we used this set-uid utility to change the
ownership of PTY slave devices to the real user ID of the process. This
* Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you plan to provide updated compat libs for 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, to
replace libc/libutil code that expects to be able to execute the pt_chown
binary? What happens if that code can't find the pt_chown binary it
expects?
I thought my commit message
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Ed Schouten wrote:
There is no need for compat libraries, because the existing ones already do
this:
- Try to run pt_chown.
- If that fails, try to chmod/chown the slave device by hand.
- If that fails, return an error.
Because the PTY that openpty() obtains already has
