linux-kernel - Re: regression, bisected: openpty fails from 3.7 onwards without devpts

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Message-ID: <50EF20F4.5060503@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:13:40 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
CC:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, frank@...htenheld.de
Subject: Re: regression, bisected: openpty fails from 3.7 onwards without
 devpts

On 01/10/2013 06:23 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> getptsname expects EINVAL on failure to fall back to /dev/ttyp*... The
> same as unlockpt. We should definitely revert now

Maybe not that strictly. It would be enough to revert TIOCGPTN and
TIOCSPTLCK to return EINVAL as suggested by Alan.
-- 
js
suse labs
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