Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1

[Edgar Toernig]

Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> > As RBJ said, ptys are now recycled in pid-like fashion,
> > which means numbers won't be reused until wraparound
> > happens.  This is good for security/fault tolerance,
> > at least to some minor degree.
> 
> Ouch. It's bad for display and bad for typing.
> What is easier to type?
> 
> ps -t pts/6
> ps -t pts/1014962

IMHO more important: what about utmp?  It would become terribly
large.  Beside that, such huge numbers won't fit into ut_id.

Ciao, ET.

--[man utmp extract]--
...
    char ut_id[4];     /* init id or abbrev. ttyname */
...
    xterm(1)  and  other  terminal emulators directly create a
    USER_PROCESS record and generate the ut_id  by  using  the
    last  two  letters  of  /dev/ttyp%c  or  by  using p%d for
    /dev/pts/%d.  If they find a  DEAD_PROCESS  for  this  id,
    they  recycle  it,  otherwise they create a new entry.
...
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