Re: Unix98 ptys

Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:31:39 +0930 (CST)


On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something here, compiling with devpts does in fact
> break standard ptys.

Ensure you have the right major number on your ptys. major=4 is defunct
in 2.1.115.

$ ls -l /dev/ptyp0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 0 Aug 13 01:07 /dev/ptyp0

MAKEDEV-2.3.1 (eg. from latest Slackware) will fix it for you.

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