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23.0.60; ttname returned by system-process-attributes points to nonexisting file

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, richardeng <richardeng <at> foxmail.com>,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, ueno <at> unixuser.org
Subject: Re: bug#1688: 23.0.60; ttname returned by system-process-attributes points to nonexisting file
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:04:50 -0500

>> --- sysdep.c.~1.328.~   2009-01-03 07:04:59.000000000 -0800
>> +++ sysdep.c    2009-01-13 01:09:56.000000000 -0800
>> @@ -3322,7 +3322,7 @@
>> 
>> if (MINOR (rdev) >= minor_beg && MINOR (rdev) <= minor_end)
>> {
>> -		   sprintf (name + strlen (name), "%lu", MINOR (rdev));
>> +		   sprintf (name + strlen (name), "/%lu", MINOR (rdev));
>> break;
>> }                                                                                              
> It's not that simple: what happens if `name' is something like "ptys"
> or "tty"?  We need to generate "ptys2" and "tty39" for them, not
> "ptys/2" and "tty/39".

Indeed, it's pretty messy.  Even just procfs_ttyname in itself is pretty
messy (not its implementation, but the need to go through those hoops).

> Faced with this difficulty, I decided not to bother, since the value
> of `ttname' is not documented to return a valid file name.

> Perhaps some Linux guru (which I ain't) can suggest an easy solution.

I think it's OK for now.  When we really need something better, we'll
just look at the `ps' code.


        Stefan

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