Re: devfs patch v38 available

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:43:07 +0100 (BST)

> > What happened in libc 5.4.44?
>
> The patch I wrote was included. The patch made ttyname(3) no longer be
> fooled by symlinks.

Be careful grabbing the latest libc 5.4.x btw - as has been (slightly
heatedly discussed) on the LSAP list it breaks time zone handling for
setuid and setgid applications

Alan

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