Re: ttyname(3) behaviour when /var/run/dev.db is out of date

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080130194423.GA964%apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za@localhost>,
Alan Barrett  <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
>If you rename a tty device after running dev_mkdb(8) to create
>/var/run/dev.db, then ttyname(3) will return the old (no longer valid)
>name.  The appended patch makes it verify the result using stat(2), and
>fall back to the old method of walking the /dev directory if the result
>appears to be incorrect.  Is this OK?
>

Sure, this change is good, but you should mention that for ptyfs ttys
this is not used....

christos