Re: Unix98 PTYs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
9 Aug 1998 11:57:25 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808090042560.15059-100000@by-tor.by-tor.com>
By author: bytor@tucka.nmhu.edu
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> So with all this confusion over the new PTY system, does anyone have a
> telnet daemon that will use them? My telnet daemon (from
> netkit-telnet-0.12) is hacked to forcibly use ttypXX... (if it was
> mentioned earlier, I apologize for having missed it.)
>

I suspect not, although glibc 2.0.95 contains the Unix98 PTY API, so
if you have a telnetd compilable for Unix98 it should work.

Note that 2.1.115 contains several bugs in its support for > 256 PTYs;
I have send a patch to Linus that will hopefully fix it already.

-hpa

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