On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:47:55PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > So in absense of dev.db, the function ttyname() will fail if the > actual device node that is the controlling tty is not the same as the > ones which oldttyname() scans.
Let me rephrase that.
In absense of dev.db, ttyname() will fail if it scans a different /dev
directory than the one that contains the special device of the actual
controlling terminal.
This is because if checks the inode number of the devices.
-Otto
