Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup prohibition of direct opening for unix98pty master

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Mon Jan 02 2012 - 17:29:25 EST


Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 09:22:31PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
cleanup hack added in v2.6.27-3203-g15582d3

comment from that patch:

: pty: If the administrator creates a device for a ptmx slave we should not error
:
: The open path for ptmx slaves is via the ptmx device. Opening them any
: other way is not allowed. Vegard Nossum found that previously this was not
: the case and mknod foo c 128 42; cat foo would produce nasty diagnostics
:
: Signed-off-by: Alan Cox<alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
: Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Any reason why you didn't include these two people on this patch?
Perhaps they might wish to review it...

This is just simple cleanup patch.


greg k-h

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