On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:47:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:00:11PM +0200, Jim Paris wrote: > > Package: xterm > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 > > Severity: normal > > > > Later Linux 2.6 kernels do not recycle pseudo TTYs, so ptys like > > /dev/pts/1234 are not uncommon. > > I suppose it was to move complexity out of the kernel into the applications. > > > xterm does not seem to handle this well at all. In particular, it > > relies on the 4-digit ut_id field in utmp, which would look like > > "p123" in the above example. If I open up three xterms on ptys which > > all have a ut_id of "p123", they overwrite each other in utmp, > > so that only one shows up. > > > > In wtmp, they all show as opening, but on close, they all act as if > > they closed the last record, not their own. > > > > I would assume this is due to code like this (in Exit() in main.c): > > that seems correct (thanks). Is it your opinion that this is a bug in the Linux kernel, then? If so, I will reassign it. If not, I would like your advice on what should be done about this bug. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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