Re: pty support in php5

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:12:07PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> On 05.09.2004, at 14:33, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >The files itself are not the problem and ptx isn't either. To correctly
> >and fully implement Unix98 we either need a setuid helper app like 
> >glibc
> >provided for a while to chown the terminal or alternatively provide a
> >pseudofilesystem for terminals. I'm looking at the second alternative
> >because it is the safer and better approach to this problem.
> 
> What about a daemon + CAPS messages from the kernel?

That would have the same problem as the helper program. How do you GC the
devices? With a filesystem the kernel can reset the attributes once all
open devices are closed.

Joerg

> 
> cheers
>   simon
> 
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