From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 11:45:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62CA16A407 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DED913C46A for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F7346F52; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:45:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:45:33 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Gary Jennejohn In-Reply-To: <200704111034.l3BAYLLg005996@peedub.jennejohn.org> Message-ID: <20070411124408.T4565@fledge.watson.org> References: <200704111034.l3BAYLLg005996@peedub.jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: des@des.no, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script stuck in devdrn X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:45:34 -0000 On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Eygene Ryabinkin writes: >> Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:30:55AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >>> It's not just script(1), it's anything that allocates a pty (including >>> sshd) when kern.pts.enable is set to 1. >> >> Confirmed. It is broken in my old and new -CURRENT kernels (9th and 11th of >> April). > > This problem has existed for months. IIRC I changed my loader.conf to set > kern.pts.enable to 0 at least 3 or 4 months ago. I know there was a fairly > extensive thread about it, but I can't provide a pointer to it. There is a known issue regarding devfs device node removal, which pts exercises extensively. I'm not sure what the status of fixing this is currently (I know it has been looked at), but it would be very nice to see this fixed in the immediate future. Right now, kern.pts.enable defaults to 0, but it would be nice to set it to 1 as the default for 7.0. Since it affects application behavior, it would be better to do this sooner rather than later in order to give both base system apps and ports a chance to settle out. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge