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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:54:28 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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Followup to:  <1078254284.2232.385.camel@cube>
By author:    Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion,
> > which means numbers won't be reused until wraparound
> > happens.  This is good for security/fault tolerance,
> > at least to some minor degree.
> 
> Ouch. It's bad for display and bad for typing.
> What is easier to type?
> 
> ps -t pts/6
> ps -t pts/1014962
> 
> (and yes, I really type these -- I don't have a
> third hand to operate the mouse simultaneously)
> 

(Programmable) tab completion, anyone?

	-hpa
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