On Monday 19 December 2005 07:58, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:59:13AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > The permissions of pty's used by kde konsole sessions on OpenBSD never
> > are properly set for the user to which they are allocated. The permissions 
> > of the
> > pty used by a kde konsole session remain owned by root and globally rw. 
> > This is because the call from konsole to kgrantpty to allocate the pty and 
> > to 
> > set the pty ownership and permissions does not seem to connect with 
> > OpenBSD's 
> > PTMGET command (man 4 pty) which does these tasks in OpenBSD.
> > 
> > You can see this after starting a few kde konsole sessions by using 'ls -l' 
> > to inspect /dev/ptys[0-9]. The output of the ls command will show the time 
> > that the pty was allocated to the kde konsole session, the global rw 
> > permissions,
> > and root ownership.
> > 
> > Dave Feustel.
> 
> konsole code is a big mess. This is not the actual issue, the actual issue
> is that a big part of konsole needs to be specialized on OpenBSD to use
> openpty, which will solve all of this.

Sounds Good to me!

Wishing Everyone A Merry Christmas
And A Happy New Year! 

Dave Feustel
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