[3868] in linux-net channel archive
Re: NetKit-B-0.07 telnetd bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Jul 26 10:43:56 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 01:33:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607260444.AAA22334@hcs.HARVARD.EDU>
On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, David Holland wrote:
> > 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...?
No idea. It's actually mknewpty, and is just for making new tty/pty devices.
Actually, I've found numerous bugs in procps-1.01, made some diffs,
emailed them to the address listed in the BUGS file, and never heard back.
> 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];
I wonder how many other programs did this?
> 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.
I downloaded libc source, but I can't find the forkpty function in it.
The rlogind I have compiled from NetKit-B-0.07 still runs out at ttysf,
so I assume it's the forkpty() in libbsd that needs adjusting.
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