Peter == Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Peter [Miles Bader]
I'd say so. Or fix the bug.
Peter Kind of quick and dirty, and not particularly tested, since
Peter I don't actually know how to use ttysnoop.
Peter But it's a proof of concept of how easy it is to add
Miles == Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Miles In any case, does anyone else know if there are really such old
Miles applications still around?
snoopy:/etc/postfix# apt-cache show ttysnoop
Package: ttysnoop
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 52
Maintainer: Alberto
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See bug #87371. The title is wrong. devfs is not the issue, /dev/pts
is (I think). I don't think there is any intention to fix the
bug. Over 4 years old. Perhaps this is grounds to drop the package
from Debian.
I'd say so. Or fix the bug.
-miles
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[Brian May]
See bug #87371. The title is wrong. devfs is not the issue,
/dev/pts is (I think). I don't think there is any intention to fix
the bug. Over 4 years old. Perhaps this is grounds to drop the
package from Debian.
[Miles Bader]
I'd say so. Or fix the bug.
Kind of quick and
Le lundi 07 novembre 2005 à 14:06 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
On Nov 07, Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would
not even know where to find one).
At least /sbin/bootlogd does not work without BSD ptys and this is
I usually compile my own kernels (using make-kpkg), but recently I
decided to try a standard debian package of 2.6.14, since it was up
before I got around to it. [This is from unstable]
It seems to work OK, but the weird thing is that I got a bunch of random
useless device nodes in /dev as a
On Nov 07, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to work OK, but the weird thing is that I got a bunch of random
useless device nodes in /dev as a result, and I'm not entirely sure
where they're coming from.
The kernel.
The main offender is ptys -- I use udev for my devices, and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
The main offender is ptys -- I use udev for my devices, and normally
/dev/pts gets used for ptys, but with the new kernel there were suddenly
about 10 zillion old-style pty-related device nodes -- /dev/[pt]ty[a-z][0-9]
So tell the kernel team to stop
On Nov 07, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So tell the kernel team to stop enabling CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS.
I presume that default kernels need legacy ptys to support older systems
that don't use udev, right?
Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would
not even
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:03 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
The main offender is ptys -- I use udev for my devices, and normally
/dev/pts gets used for ptys, but with the new kernel there were suddenly
about 10 zillion old-style pty-related device nodes --
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:30:56PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would
not even know where to find one).
At least /sbin/bootlogd does not work without BSD ptys and this is not
documented anywhere. I needed some time to figure out
On Nov 07, Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would
not even know where to find one).
At least /sbin/bootlogd does not work without BSD ptys and this is not
Actually it does.
documented anywhere. I needed some time to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
I presume that default kernels need legacy ptys to support older systems
that don't use udev, right?
Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would
not even know where to find one).
I was thinking about the case where someone
Miles Bader wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
I presume that default kernels need legacy ptys to support older systems
that don't use udev, right?
Wrong. Nothing needs BSD ptys but some *very* old applications (I would
not even know where to find one).
I was thinking about
On Nov 07, Christopher Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This fixes both rtc and floppy. I'm assuming that the root of the problem
here is the kernel? No surprise if that's the case. But thanks for coming
up with a workaround. Hopefully there aren't too many more of these issues
lurking.
[Ian Campbell]
It's to support older applications which don't know about the
/dev/pyts/ interface. Whether the legacy device nodes come from a
static /dev or from udev doesn't really enter in to it.
/dev/{pts/,ptmx} are so trivial to support (in applications) that I
think it's worthwhile to
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/dev/{pts/,ptmx} are so trivial to support (in applications) that I
think it's worthwhile to disable legacy BSD pty support in Debian
kernels, and fix whatever still breaks. That is, unless we think there
are still a significant number of third-party
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