On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:10:03AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Paul Schenkeveld <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or change 'pts' to, for example, 'pt' so without changing utmp and > > related stuff we'll have space for a four digit pty number. > > I've noticed lots of apps already misbehave because of the pty(4) -> > pts(4) migration. I guess using a new naming scheme would totally break > stuff. There are lots of apps that do things like: > > if (strncmp(tty, "tty", 3) != 0 && strncmp(tty, "pts/", 4) != 0) > printf("Not a valid pseudo-terminal!\n"); > > But those are just workarounds. Our utmp format is broken anyway. It's > not just UT_LINESIZE that's too small. I think we received many > complaints from people who want to increase UT_HOSTSIZE as well.
Well, UT_HOSTSIZE can't hold a full sized IPv6 address. -- B.Walter <[email protected]> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
