--- sysdep.c.~1.328.~ 2009-01-03 07:04:59.000000000 -0800
+++ sysdep.c 2009-01-13 01:09:56.000000000 -0800
@@ -3322,7 +3322,7 @@
if (MINOR (rdev) >= minor_beg && MINOR (rdev) <= minor_end)
{
- sprintf (name + strlen (name), "%lu", MINOR (rdev));
+ sprintf (name + strlen (name), "/%lu", MINOR (rdev));
break;
}
It's not that simple: what happens if `name' is something like "ptys"
or "tty"? We need to generate "ptys2" and "tty39" for them, not
"ptys/2" and "tty/39".
Indeed, it's pretty messy. Even just procfs_ttyname in itself is pretty
messy (not its implementation, but the need to go through those hoops).
Faced with this difficulty, I decided not to bother, since the value
of `ttname' is not documented to return a valid file name.
Perhaps some Linux guru (which I ain't) can suggest an easy solution.
I think it's OK for now. When we really need something better, we'll
just look at the `ps' code.
Stefan