Bug#60984: getpty() under powerpc, with telnetd
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:54:32PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:57:39AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > I believe that this is just a result of not having /dev/ptmx 666. Is it
> > possible for libc6 to check for this?
>
> What if for some silly reason, some one wants it that way? I'm not so sure
> that there is enough reason to force these perms on it.
I'm not saying that libc6 should force it to be 666, but it would be nice
for it to warn the user at least once if /dev/ptmx is not 666 which could
prevent further bug reports of this kind.
Then again, maybe it should just be documented somewhere.
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