Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: pts having the same device number. | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 02:51:50 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <40859891.8080208@dlfp.org> By author: matthieu <mat_@dlfp.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hello, > on 2.6.4 I have seen that two pts device can have the same number : > $ls -l /dev/pts/ > total 0 > crw--w---- 1 mat tty 136, 2 2004-04-20 23:15 2562 > crw--w---- 1 mat tty 136, 2 2004-04-20 23:15 2818 > > Is that normal ? >
Your libc or ls is old. They actually have the device numbers 136,2562 and 136,2818 but you only see the bottom 8 bits:
2562 & 255 = 2 2818 & 255 = 2
This doesn't affect proper operation, it just affects the output from ls.
-hpa
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