From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:18:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:18:43 -0500 Received: from mail.uni-kl.de ([131.246.137.52]:27796 "EHLO mail.uni-kl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:18:34 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011127180622.B1087@wonko.esi.org.pl> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:18:32 +0100 (CET) X-Face: B^`ajbarE`qo`-u#R^.)e]6sO?X)FpoEm\>*T:H~b&S;U/h$2>my}Otw5$+BDxh}t0TGU?> O8Bg0/jQW@P"eyp}2UMkA!lMX2QmrZYW\F,OpP{/s{lA5aG'0LRc*>n"HM@#M~r8Ub9yV"0$^i~hKq P-d7Vz;y7FPh{XfvuQA]k&X+CDlg"*Y~{x`}U7Q:;l?U8C,K\-GR~>||pI/R+HBWyaCz1Tx]5 Reply-To: Joachim Backes Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Computer Center [Supercomputing division] From: Joachim Backes To: Dominik Mierzejewski Subject: Re: 2.4.12 ... 2.4.16, /dev/tty Cc: LINUX Kernel Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Dominik, On 27-Nov-2001 Dominik Mierzejewski wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 November 2001, Yaroslav Popovitch wrote: > > > > > > I also tested my 2.4.10-17 for tty bug,it was there.And I found that bug > > exists if I do the full installation of our distributive. > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > still having problems (starting with kernel 2.4.12) with > > > the /dev/tty device: > > > > > > When logging in on the console and trying the "ps" command, > > > is will list _all_ processes and not only those which are > > > attached to the controlling terminal. This seemed a little > > > bit suspicious. > [snip] > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > The above described problem first appeared with Kernel 2.4.12, > > > I tried the following kernels (now 2.4.16), BUT WITH NO SUCCESS. > > > Kernel 2.4.10 was _not buggy_. > > > > > > Additionally, the problem does not arise on all my LINUX workstations, > > > but only on some. And it does not depend on the harware platform. > > > And is does not depend on the distribution. Both on RedHat 7.1 ans > > > Redhat 7.2 having the problem. > > I believe it's a problem with /bin/login, which has a race condition > preventing it from opening /dev/tty. It is fixed in rawhide, upgrading > util-linux to at least 2.11f-6 solved this for me. > So it's not a kernel issue. Thanks, this helped me a lot. Only one issue: after installing rawhide vers. 2.11f-16 of util-linux and not 2.11f-6, my problem disappeared. Regards Joachim Backes -- Joachim Backes | Univ. of Kaiserslautern Computer Center, High Performance Computing | Phone: +49-631-205-2438 D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany | Fax: +49-631-205-3056 ---------------------------------------------+------------------------ WWW: http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html