On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Russell King schrieb: > > tty mtime updates aren't marked dirty, so aren't written back to disk. > > Intentionally. > > It seems the tty mtime exception doesn't include /dev/ptmx. That's > probably unintentional. Is there a chance to extend the tty mtime > exception to all char devices or at least major 4+5?
It does include /dev/ptmx, at least here with 2.6.11-rc2-bk1 and 2.4 kernels. In fact, it's common to all tty devices since it's handled by the generic tty code. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
