4 Nov
2004
4 Nov
'04
5:15 p.m.
Alan Williams alan@bearsden.demon.co.uk writes:
Using strace, I can see the problem happens on trying to open '/dev/tty', which used to be a device pointing at the current terminal and is now a directory containing devices 's','s0',..,'s9'. The application dies with 'EISDIR'.
The documentation on this change is obscure (nothing new), though presumably this is soumething to do with the setup of udev. So any info you have on these points would be useful.
- Why has this particular change happened?
http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=109014 suggests that it is just a bug.