Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup prohibition of direct opening for unix98pty master

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:22:31PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> > cleanup hack added in v2.6.27-3203-g15582d3
> >
> > comment from that patch:
> >
> > : pty: If the administrator creates a device for a ptmx slave we should not error
> > :
> > : The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any
> > : other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not
> > : the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics
> > :
> > : Signed-off-by: Alan Cox<alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > : Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Any reason why you didn't include these two people on this patch?
> Perhaps they might wish to review it...

This is just simple cleanup patch.

> greg k-h

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