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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Ed Schouten wrote:

>  SVN rev 183438 on 2008-09-28 16:44:15Z by ed
>
>  Don't automatically prepend the "tty" prefix to `pkill -t' arguments.
>
>  Because we now enforce UNIX98-style PTY's, we now use a lot of TTY's
>  that don't have the traditional /dev/ttyXX naming scheme. pkill(1)'s -t
>  flag automatically prepended the word "tty" to each TTY that was passed
>  on the command line. This meant that `pkill -t pts/0' was actually
>  converted to /dev/ttypts/0. Disable this broken behaviour for now.

Once we've decided on the right long-term fix, it should be an MFC candidate 
so that 7.x userspaces work properly on 8.x kernels in the future.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge