screen bug

Oliver Laumann net at tub.UUCP
Mon Mar 6 01:03:23 AEST 1989


In article <MCP2.89Mar3163135 at csd4.milw.wisc.edu> mcp2 at csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Michael C Polinske) writes:
> Last night while working on the system I discovered a very serious bug
> in the screen program:
[opening a window gets connected to another person's login session]

This is a bug in the pseudo-tty implementation rather than a bug
in screen.  It should not be possible to allocate a pty that has
not been closed.

Regards,
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Oliver Laumann              net at TUB.BITNET              net at tub.UUCP



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