[PATCH 2/2] openpty: use TIOCGPTPEER to open slave side fd

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Aug 28 07:34:00 GMT 2017


On 08/26/2017 03:44 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> +#ifdef TIOCGPTPEER
> +  slave = ioctl (master, TIOCGPTPEER, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
> +#else
>    if (pts_name (master, &buf, sizeof (_buf)))
>      goto fail;
>  
>    slave = open (buf, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);
> +#endif

I don't think you can #ifdef out existing code this way without
introducing failures on older kernels.  You need to try the ioctl first,
and if that fails, use the old pts_name code.

Thanks,
Florian



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