Andrew Pimlott writes:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:59:12PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Khimenko Victor writes:
>
> > > - if ((tty = rindex(ttyn, '/')))
> > > - ++tty;
> > > + if (strncmp(ttyn, "/dev/", 5) == 0)
> > > + tty = ttyn+5;
> > > else
> >
> > Hm. util-linux-2.10f doesn't have this, 2.10h does. 2.10g isn't on
> > kernel.org.
> >
> > However, you really should have swapped to index(3) instead (or
> > better, strchr(3) which is POSIX). Building an assumption on /dev
> > isn't very good either. It still wouldn't be 100% correct (it'll fall
> > over if your device nodes/devfs mountpoint are deeper), but it would
> > be better.
>
> Perhaps best to look for a purely numerical last component, and in
> that case take the last two components.
That would break the old names. "/dev/tty1" would not match to "tty1".
Regards,
Richard....
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