Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:02:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com
To: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

> >>>>> "Peter" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
> Peter> As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion, which
> Peter> means numbers won't be reused until wraparound happens.
>
> Ouch.  I've been using the tty name in $HISTFILE for some time now
> (at least on laptops and workstations); I do not see any reasonable
> alternative to prevent overwriting while still saving history.
>
> Will patching in the old behavior wrt re-use, while not disrupting
> the other improvements, be a lot of work?  I've looked thru the src,
> but haven't yet spotted the point where the new pis number is chosen.
>
> -JimC
>

I think /dev/tty, used in the context of any process, always refers
to the current processes terminal. You should not have to "hard-code"
a particular terminal.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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