Re: bin/39214: lastcomm(1) doesn't support ptyfs

[christos@xxxxxxxxxx (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/39214; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@xxxxxxxxxx (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx, gnats-admin@xxxxxxxxxx, netbsd-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/39214: lastcomm(1) doesn't support ptyfs
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:37:25 -0400

 On Jul 27,  6:00am, dholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (dholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 
wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/39214: lastcomm(1) doesn't support ptyfs
 
 | >Number:         39214
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       lastcomm(1) doesn't support ptyfs
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       non-critical
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 27 06:00:00 +0000 2008
 | >Originator:     David A. Holland
 | >Release:        NetBSD 4.99.69 (20080713)
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | System: NetBSD valkyrie 4.99.69 NetBSD 4.99.69 (VALKYRIE) #30: Sun Jul 13 
10:21:49 EDT 2008 root@valkyrie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/VALKYRIE amd64
 | Architecture: x86_64
 | Machine: amd64
 | >Description:
 | 
 | lastcomm prints old-style tty names even if you're using ptyfs.
 | 
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 | 
 | valkyrie% tty
 | /dev/pts/17
 | valkyrie% lastcomm | head -1
 | tty        -       dholland ttyq1      0.00 secs Sun Jul 27 01:55 
(0:00:00.00)
 | valkyrie% 
 
 Remove the old style pty nodes and regen the device db. They have the
 same major/minor number as the ptyfs ones and they are matched first.
 
 christos