Re: pty problems in 2.1.115

Michael L. Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 17:26:47 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 robert@bga.com wrote:

> 2.1.115 compiled and fine on my machine, but when I tried to start X
> none of the xterms came up. It seems they're having problems opening
> ptys. Also I cannot "telnet localhost", same problem. I noticed this
> /dev/ptmx thing in 2.1.115, and although I didn't see any reason why
> rxvt or telnet would be trying to use that system, I figured I'd set
> it up and see what happened. Well, not much happened :) Is anyone
> else having problems? Back to pre-2.1.115-4 for now,

No problem here. Glibc-2.0.95 and Xfree-3.3.2. I was kinda suprised to
find that mount handles it with no patching, but it does :) I don't have
anything that uses them to test with though :(

Anyone know of a package that'll use these automagical little beasties?

-Mike

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