From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu> Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99-p5 ??? Date: 15 Feb 1993 20:32:34 -0500
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 09:56:58 GMT
Arggh. It was me who added the new noctty checks: I also disabled the
use of /dev/console as a general tty, as that had resulted in some weird
syslog behaviour. I had gotten a few comments that pty masters weren't
real tty's, and should also be disabled, and I tend to agree. I'm sorry
if I broke any binaries, but I don't think I'll change it back unless
there is any other reason for it than a few weird bsd binaries.
I don't understand why not allowing master pty's to become controlling
tty's would cause any problems. Why are certain programs relying on
this behavior at all?
- Ted