[uClibc] Problem with ttyname

[Patrick Aussems]

Erik Andersen wrote:

>On Mon Jan 12, 2004 at 05:10:46PM +0100, Patrick Aussems wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Since I upgraded my uClibc to 0.9.26 (I was successfully using 
>>20031103cvs) I can't telnet to my devel card anymore.
>>
>>paussems at cuicui:~$ telnet 10.1.1.248
>>Trying 10.1.1.248...
>>Connected to 10.1.1.248.
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>Unable to determine your tty name.
>>Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>>The 'Unable to determine your tty name' is printed by the 'login' app 
>>(from tinylogin-1.4) as a result of a 'ttyname' function that returns a 
>>NULL pointer. Any idea why? I'm using uClinux on an MMU-less ARM 
>>processor, with devfs enabled
>>    
>>
>
>Hmmm.  The uClibc ttyname() function was considerably reworked
>for the 0.9.26 release.  It is possible we missed some sortof
>corner case I guess.  The fundamental algorithm we use is the
>same as the old one, just a bit more optimized.
>
>What were you getting for ttyname before, with 20031103cvs?
>  
>
ttyname returned 'misc'

>If you revert uClibc/libc/termios/ttyname.c to the old version
>does it work for you?  Did you choose the exact same setting
>for the UNIX98PTY_ONLY and ASSUME_DEVPTS uClibc config options?
>  
>
I reverted the ttyname.c file to the one I was using, recompiled 
everything and now everything works again. And yes, the settings used 
for the compilation of both versions of uClibc are the same.

Regards,

Patrick Aussems