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

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:11:34 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
CC:	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 11:51 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 11:45 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> So we should just fix TIOCGPTN on a pty with no suitable name answer to
>> return -EINVAL
> 
> Yes, I agree as I'm expressed in my second mail. Sorry for the confusion.

Does the attached patch help?

-- 
js
suse labs

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