Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard B Johnson <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Richard> I think /dev/tty, used in the context of any process, always
Richard> refers to the current processes terminal. You should not have
Richard> to "hard-code" a particular terminal.

No, I obviously was ambiguous.  I use:

export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history_${USER}_$(tty|sed s_^/dev/__|tr / _)

in my ~/.bashrc to ensure that each term has a unique and repeatable
HISTFILE.  I do not see any alternative tuple that is unique and
repeatable.

This change makes that idiom useless, with no alternative available.

On a multi-user server the change is clearly the right thing to do,
but on a workstation, laptop or handheld, where few ptys are typically
allocated, the case isn't so clear.

-JimC



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