Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261706AbUCBQyt (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:54:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261707AbUCBQyt (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:54:49 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:62607 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261706AbUCBQyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:54:47 -0500 Message-ID: <4044BC48.7060903@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:54:32 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040105 X-Accept-Language: en, sv, es, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James H. Cloos Jr." CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 References: <20040301184512.GA21285@hobbes.itsari.int> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 24 James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: >>>>>>"Peter" == H Peter Anvin 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. Not a lot of work, but the performance would suffer big time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/