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| author | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> | 2012-08-29 10:03:39 +0530 |
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| committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> | 2012-08-29 10:04:23 +0530 |
| commit | 050af9c4e86eeecd484ed44b7765e750523276eb (patch) | |
| tree | 0f0db2f1ddbadd2288acc5540eb9684337c78815 /NEWS | |
| parent | ad845c0be95fe3635af0147f0665b110286e68a5 (diff) | |
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Don't make ttyname* fail if proc filesystem is not available
The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. Fixes BZ #14516.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 247139018d..6abc6eab80 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Version 2.17 3479, 5400, 6778, 6808, 9685, 11607, 13717, 13696, 13939, 14042, 14090, 14166, 14150, 14151, 14154, 14157, 14166, 14173, 14195, 14252, 14283, 14298, 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14459, - 14505, 14519 + 14505, 14516, 14519 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x. Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ Version 2.17 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself; this is the default if --disable-nscd is used. +* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for + the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This + allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. + Version 2.16 |