Re: Userland problems from kern.pts.enable=1

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:05:20PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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
> 
> Good news!  Thanks for your help.  It would be worthwhile also
> auditing for other utilities that manipulate TTYs, for example others
> I can think of off the top of my head are pgrep, watch, etc.
> 

Do the fixes from kib actually permit the use of pts?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/92742

-- 
Steve