GNU bug report logs - #1688
23.0.60; ttname returned by system-process-attributes points to nonexisting file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:05:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #92 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: richardeng <richardeng <at> foxmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 1688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        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: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:51:59 +0800

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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> check ISDIR first
>>     
>
> It's a good heursitic, but it's still just a heuristic.
> You may have a /dev/tty directory and still use /dev/tty1.
> Maybe it's better to get rid of the "/dev/" prefix to make it more clear
> that it's not really a valid file name.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>
>   
you mean /dev/tty1 and /dev/tty/1 will exist at the same time?
It won't as I know in linux

procfs_ttyname should return a full path of the ttyname, or at least one function can return the fullpath.


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