two irix patches

Alain St-Denis Alain.St-Denis at ec.gc.ca
Sat Dec 2 04:13:02 EST 2000


Irix 6.5.5
OpenSSH 2.2.0p1

Alain.

mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Michael Stone wrote:
>
> > First, does anyone know why the following was added in the first place?
> > It purposely strips the tty off of tty names (e.g., ttyq1 becomes q1)
> > before sticking them in wtmp. IRIX then has no idea what terminal people
> > are attached to, causing commands like wall to fail (as they try to open
> > /dev/q1). Maybe this should be version specific?
> >
> revision 1.26
> date: 2000/09/30 10:34:44;  author: djm;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -4
>  - (djm) Irix strips "/dev/tty" from [uw]tmp entries (other systems only
>    strip "/dev/"). Fix loginrec.c based on patch from Alain St-Denis
>    <Alain.St-Denis at ec.gc.ca>
>
> No idea what version Alain is running for SGI.
>
> - Ben






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