Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263542AbUDEX5r (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:57:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263544AbUDEX5r (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:57:47 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:12235 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263542AbUDEX5q (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:57:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:59:57 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PTS alocation problem with 2.6.4/2.6.5 Message-Id: <20040405165957.5f8ab8dc.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200404052253.i35Mr6k6011170@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> References: <200404052253.i35Mr6k6011170@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 19 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > I noticed serious problem with PTS alocation on kernels 2.6.4 and 2.6.5: > It seems that once alocated /dev/pts entries are never reused, leading to > pty alocation errors. The testing system is fully compiled with kernel 2.2.x > headers (including glibc), but informations from my coleagues using systems > compiled on 2.4/2.6 headers seems to behave similarily. > The testcase and used kernel configuration are shown below. > Kernel 2.6.3 does not have this problem. > Is it bug or feature (and I am doing sth wrong) ? You need a glibc upgrade - we broke things for really old glibc's. We're (slowly) working on fixing it up. - 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/