I have just noticed something odd with screen on ppc: when i run screen a tty is allocated in /dev/pts as normal, however with screen its created eb.eb mode 622 instead of eb.tty mode 620. this does not affect ssh which also uses /dev/pts. however this does not occur on x86 machines, only ppc.
observe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ screen bash [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l `tty` crw--w--w- 1 eb eb 136, 1 Oct 18 23:42 /dev/pts/1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ssh plato [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l `tty` crw--w---- 1 eb tty 136, 14 Oct 18 23:42 /dev/pts/14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ screen bash [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l `tty` crw--w---- 1 eb tty 136, 15 Oct 18 23:43 /dev/pts/15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ssh socrates [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l `tty` crw--w---- 1 eb tty 136, 2 Oct 18 23:44 /dev/pts/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ on my ppc: Linux socrates 2.2.17 #1 Mon Sep 4 20:35:42 AKDT 2000 ppc unknown on my intel: Linux plato 2.2.16 #2 Mon Jun 12 04:28:16 AKDT 2000 i686 unknown also tested on another intel box running: Linux venabili 2.2.17 #1 Thu Oct 12 05:29:29 AKDT 2000 i586 unknown /dev/pts is mounted like so: devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) screen is setgid utmp on all systems. does anyone else see this? is it a bug in screen? or the kernel? screen is Version: 3.9.5-9 from security.debian.org -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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