Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty?

[Russell King]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:26:19PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> There are 16 tty major numbers (as of the Linux 1.1 kernel,
> or thereabouts) with 256 minors each, and the names are 8
> characters long. That makes for a 32 KiB file; procps will
> verify the length. Major numbers are to be stored in the
> following order:
> 
> 2,3,4,5,19,20,22,23,24,25,32,33,46,47,48,49
> 
> The structure is thus like this:
> 
> char psdevtab[16][256][8]

So it basically breaks on 2.x kernels because (eg) you don't include major
204 as a tty major.  Plus, if you insist that there are only N tty major
numbers, you break as soon as another tty major gets added.

Try again.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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