Re: PTS alocation problem with 2.6.4/2.6.5

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I noticed serious problem with PTS alocation on kernels 2.6.4 and 2.6.5:
> > It seems that once alocated /dev/pts entries are never reused, leading to
> > pty alocation errors. The testing system is fully compiled with kernel 2.2.x
> > headers (including glibc), but informations from my coleagues using systems
> > compiled on 2.4/2.6 headers seems to behave similarily.
> > The testcase and used kernel configuration are shown below.
> > Kernel 2.6.3 does not have this problem.
> > Is it bug or feature (and I am doing sth wrong) ?
> 
> You need a glibc upgrade - we broke things for really old glibc's.  We're
> (slowly) working on fixing it up.

Hmmm, which version is enough ?

I use glibc-2.2.5, but people using glibc-2.3.3 snapshot, dated 20040101
also have the same problem...

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