On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:55:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 18 13:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 00:20 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> > This patchset implements /proc/devices[1]: >> > >> > The question is how to handle /dev/tty and /dev/console as the >> > apparently vary now, per cgf's remarks on the main list. > >/dev/tty, /dev/console and /dev/ptmx have fixed major and minor numbers. >But I see what you mean. While `ls -l /dev/tty' on Linux always returns >with 5, 0 as major, minor, on Cygwin it returns with the major and minor >numbers of the actual tty it refers to: > > $ tty > /dev/tty2 > $ ls -l /dev/tty > crw--w---- 1 corinna vinschen 136, 2 Aug 18 21:51 /dev/tty > >Same for /dev/console. Chris, is it tricky to return always the >real major, minor pairs 5, 0 and 5, 1 for /dev/tty and /dev/console?
I think I mentioned this when /proc/devices was first proposed. I changed this when I merged the console and tty handling more closely a couple of months ago. It's not impossible to fix. I'll get around to it eventually. cgf
