From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99-p5 ??? Date: 14 Feb 1993 02:19:14 GMT
Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) wrote:
: >>>>> On Thu, 11 Feb 1993 15:11:03 GMT, hank@Blimp (Hendrik G. Seliger) said:
:
: Hank> I just compiled linux-0.99-p5 (using ipc-patches and the idle-
: Hank> patches for xsysinfo, which all went w/o problems). Then I had
: Hank> to find that rlogin into my second linux-PC didn't work anymore.
: Hank> I get a message about it being unable to identify my tty-name
: Hank> and rlogin closes (it's on the side I want to log into; rlogin
: Hank> works on a machine with 0.99-p5, just not into it).
:
: Hank> For now I went back to 0.99-p4, but what's the matter here?
:
: Linux 0.99.5 disabled the ability for a program to aquire a pty master
: device as a controlling terminal. I think this is a mistake. Here is
: a patch.
Woah!!!! This is NOT a mistake. You should never be able to aquire a
pty MASTER as a controlling tty. Only slaves. The master device is NOT
a tty. If the program breaks with the correct behaviour, then the
program is broken, not linux.
Michael