Help! Unix98 PTY's don't work [2.1.128]

Jeff Noxon (jeff@planetfall.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:54:02 -0600


The following program dies with this message:

open pty slave: Input/output error

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Jeff

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

#ifndef TIOCGPTN
#define TIOCGPTN _IOR('T',0x30, unsigned int)
#endif

#define die(x) { printf("%s: %s\n", x, strerror(errno)); exit(1); }

int
main (void)
{
int ptmx;
int pty_num;
char pty_name[32];

ptmx = open ("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR);
if (ptmx < 0)
die ("open /dev/ptmx");

if (ioctl (ptmx, TIOCGPTN, &pty_num))
die ("ioctl TIOCGPTN /dev/ptmx");

snprintf (pty_name, sizeof (pty_name), "/dev/pts/%d", pty_num);

if (open (pty_name, O_RDWR) <0 ) die ("open pty slave");

return 0;
}

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