[3867] in linux-net channel archive
Re: NetKit-B-0.07 telnetd bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holland)
Fri Jul 26 10:14:29 1996
From: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net (Jon Lewis)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 00:44:46 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960725121606.15516j@inorganic5.chem.ufl.edu> from "Jon Lewis" at Jul 25, 96 01:05:56 pm
> This is a somewhat annoying bug that I first found in the procps (0.99a
> and 1.01) mknewpty script.
Why is procps circulating a makedev script...?
> * the fourth letter is one of pqrstuvwxyzabcde indicating
> the 1st through 16th series of 16 pseudo-ttys each, and
This has been fixed. I applied the patch that's been sitting on the
archives, obviously without checking it quite carefully enough.
> - *p1 = "pqrstuvwxyzABCDE"[i];
> + *p1 = "abcdetuvwxyzpqrs"[i];
> *p2 = '0';
> if (stat(line, &stb) < 0)
> - break;
> + continue;
I did this, except that I didn't reorder the ptys. If rlogind isn't
doing the right thing, send a patch for forkpty(3) to HJL - it's a
libc issue.
There will be another release of netkit fixing this and a couple other
bugs.
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