Re: pts bug? and keyboard on kvm

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403111109290.21406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Edmund Lau <edlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I just upgraded to 2.6.4.  Is it normal for /dev/pts numbers to keep
> increasing now?  With 2.6.3, I could log in or create an xterm and a pts
> would be assigned.  Then when it was released, another process could reuse
> that number.  Now, it seems it just keeps incrementing.  Has this changed?
> 

Yes.  We may make a slight change to this, due to the incredibly
braindamaged way glibc and xterm handles utmp, however.

	-hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/