On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:50:46PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 17:39 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > When the kern.pts.enable sysctl is set to '1', pseudo-ttys are created > > with device name /dev/pts/${NUMBER}. With some kernel fixes from kib > > this appears to now be stable and the kernel side is ready for a > > possible change of default. However, the new device naming confuses > > some userland utilities. For example: > > > > pointyhat# write simon > > write: /dev/398: No such file or directory > > > > simon was logged in on /dev/pts/398. > > > > killall -t also fails to parse the new device format: > > > > bento# ps -t pts/187 > > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > > 67734 187 Ss 0:00.04 /bin/csh > > 72599 187 R+ 0:00.00 ps -t pts/187 > > bento# killall -t pts/187 > > killall: stat(/dev/ttypts/187): No such file or directory > > > > It would also be useful if ps -t recognized a numeric argument as > > magic and converted it to add the pts/. It already appears to do the > > converse when displaying the TTY, as you can see above. > > > > There are probably other utilities also affected. > > > > Kris > > > > If no-one has already started working on these, I've had a look at a few > of these utils and the changes look quite straightforward. I've been > looking for something like this (simple enough for me to do, simple > enough that a I can't ??$%^ it up too much) so I can contribute back to > FreeBSD. > > So far, I'm looking at usr.bin/killall, bin/ps and usr.bin/write > Mentioned patches are at http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/destroy_dev_sched.10.patch
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