> I noticed Alan wrote in his release notes this breaks screen.
> It broke mine.
> I tried downgrading the kernel, and screen... Is there any work around?
> Here is what I am seeing...
> I'm running Debian 2.2 (potato)
> [wrmcd@janitor: ~]$ screen -S bitchx bitchx
> Cannot access '/dev/ttyp˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙': No such file or directory
That might be a bug in glibc 2.1. The latest glibc 2.1 debian package
should have this fixed.
I'm appending the patch below. The patch will be in glibc 2.1.1.
Andreas
1999-04-01 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ttyname.c (ttyname): Terminate the string.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ttyname_r.c (__ttyname_r): Likewise.
Index: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ttyname.c
===================================================================
--- ttyname.c 1999/03/08 11:46:01 1.8
+++ ttyname.c 1999/04/01 09:32:31 1.9
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
int dostat = 0;
char *name;
int save = errno;
+ int len;
if (!__isatty (fd))
return NULL;
@@ -130,10 +131,17 @@
}
}
- if (__readlink (procname, buf, buflen) != -1
+ len = __readlink (procname, buf, buflen);
+ if (len != -1
/* This is for Linux 2.0. */
&& buf[0] != '[')
- return buf;
+ {
+ if (len >= buflen)
+ return NULL;
+ /* readlink need not terminate the string. */
+ buf[len] = '\0';
+ return buf;
+ }
if (__fxstat (_STAT_VER, fd, &st) < 0)
return NULL;
Index: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ttyname_r.c
===================================================================
--- ttyname_r.c 1999/03/08 11:46:10 1.9
+++ ttyname_r.c 1999/04/01 09:32:17 1.10
@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@
ret = __readlink (procname, buf, buflen - 1);
if (ret != -1 && buf[0] != '[')
- return 0;
+ {
+ buf[ret] = '\0';
+ return 0;
+ }
if (ret == -1 && errno == ENAMETOOLONG)
{
__set_errno (ERANGE);
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