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). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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