Hi Serge, On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > near as i can tell (from tests and code), ptsname and grantpt both > require the passed-in fd to exist in /dev/pts. So if you pass in > an fd from a newinstance devpts mounted elsewhere things can go > wrong. Particularly if the passed-in fd is for /other/dev/pts/0 > and /dev/pts/0 does not exist, then grantpt and ptsname will return > -ENOENT. > > The manpage should probably mention that. I've not written anything > for it yet. (Willing to, but not until this weekend I'm afraid.) That'd be great! Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
