Re: Unix98 ptys

Joel Klecker (jk@espy.org)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:52:36 -0700

At 22:45 -0700 1998-08-10, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote:
>Is it true that Unix98 ptys only work with glibc 2.1, and that
>selecting this option makes old-stype ptys cease to work?

Part one: yes. Part two: no[1].

[1] Unless you mean the really old pty devices, if you have pty* and ttyp*
devices on major 2 and major 3 respectively, you have the newer set of
BSD-style pty devices and you're safe.

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Joel "Espy" Klecker
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