Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:51:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP Message-ID: <199606052051.NAA29664@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606051421.KAA09865@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Jun 5, 96 10:21:58 am
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> Things I note thus far: > > # ls -l /dev/tty > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1, 0 5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty > > really wants to be: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 1, 0 5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty > > otherwise xterm cannot open it. Breaking xterm is a Bad Thing (tm). Hmmm... I wonder if this change should wait until the xterm sets the ownership on the pty (ie: maybe it should not happen at all). Specifically, you really don't want someone to be able to open the slave side before the pty is allocated, and has a master -- maybe not even then, until the program that grabbed the master provides the slave process itself? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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