Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:43:40 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrew.lunn@ascom.ch
Subject: Re: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > IOW: we broke it.  Have you any theory as to which change caused this?
> 
> That's the magic use uid/gid of the process calling devfs_Register flag
> I killed.  With a big HEADSUP and explanation on lkml..

So what is the impact here?  That libc5 will break if the user is using
devfs and old-style pty's?
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > IOW: we broke it.  Have you any theory as to which change caused this?
> 
> That's the magic use uid/gid of the process calling devfs_Register flag
> I killed.  With a big HEADSUP and explanation on lkml..

So what is the impact here?  That libc5 will break if the user is using
devfs and old-style pty's?
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