Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!net
From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: screen bug
Message-ID: <786@tub.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 15:03:23 GMT
References: <MCP2.89Mar3163135@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <MCP2.89Mar3163135@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> mcp2@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@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP