Re: bin/38175: comsat misunderstands NetBSD 4.0 ptyfs PTY names

[Ed Ravin <eravin%panix.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/38175; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ed Ravin <eravin%panix.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/38175: comsat misunderstands NetBSD 4.0 ptyfs PTY names
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:30:38 -0500

 On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:00:04PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >  
 >  I wonder if this message:
 >  
 >      Mar  5 08:40:39 logsources@panix5/166.84.1.5 comsat[12662]: '/' in 
 > "/dev/pts/51"
 >  
 >  is coming from:
 >  
 >      syslog(LOG_AUTH | LOG_NOTICE, "Unexpected `/' in `%s'",
 >  
 >  since the quotes are different. It looks more similar to the string from
 >  ttymsg.c:
 >  
 >      (void)snprintf(errbuf, sizeof(errbuf),
 >      "%s: '/' or '.' in \"%s\"", __func__, line);
 >  
 >  but again it is not the same...
 
 Ouch, big PEBCAK error on my part - we were running a locally patched
 version of an ancient comsat.  Please close this problem report.