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Re: Opinions solicted for changes to tty names in 1.7.10
On Jun 15 10:33, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 6/14/2011 4:36 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > Corinna suggested that I should send a query here to see if anyone knows
> > if this proposed change will affect any existing applications which use
> > ptys like mintty, emacs, xterm, rxvt, or screen.
>
> I think rxvt will break, but I'm sure that can be corrected with an
> updated release. As currently configured, the only explicit references
> to "/dev/tty" (note: NOT "/dev/ttyN") are in ptytty.c, as part of the
> rxvt_control_tty function. This function is basically concerned with
> ensuring that the active [pt]ty does NOT have a controlling terminal, so
> it opens /dev/tty with O_NOCTTY and does various checks.
>
> However, rxvt uses openpty() + ttyname() stuff explicitly for all other
> purposes.
>
> rxvt-unicode uses "/dev/tty" in a similar way, as part of its
> control_tty() function. As configured, it uses Unix98 stuff (incl.
> ptsname(), posix_openpt(), etc) otherwise.
"/dev/tty" will not be removed, of course. It's still the name of
the controlling terminal of the process.
Corinna
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