On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
quoted text
> pty: If the administrator creates a device not for a ptmx slave don't error
>
> From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
>
>
> The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any
> other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not
> the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics
> ---

Thanks, this seems to work for me. I do get a "SLAP" in dmesg each
time, however :-)


Vegard

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disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
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