Re: Slightly off-topic - glibc 2.1

Rafal Wierzbicki (rafal@mcss.cas.mcmaster.ca)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:27:40 -0500 (EST)


openpty() are defined in -lutil, my system is working perfectly fine with
Unix98 pty's but a lot of system utilities (procps, shadow-utils etc)
needed to be slightly modified.

Ralf Wierzbicki

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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Shannon Aldinger wrote:

> rom: Dustin Marquess > <jailbird@alcatraz.fdf.net> > > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:44:49 -0600 (CST) > > Subject: Re: Slightly off-topic - glibc 2.1 > > > > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > > > > iirc, they had some licensing problems with db2. > > > > > > its up again. Just checked. there is a new LICENSE file in db2 subdir, if you > > > are interested. > > I don't like that they pulled the stat functions out into a seperate > static library. Alot of things nag about "_xstat" undefined if not linked > against libc_nonshared.a. Also the unix 98 pty support seems to be > lacking. openpty() is prototyped extern in <pty.h>, but never defined > elsewhere. They also change utmpx stuff so ssh-2.0.12 at least is broken. > So much for glibc2.0 being the last version without binary compatability. > > Does anyone have devpts stuff working with glibc2.1? Do you have to link > in another library to define openpty()? > > Mental Recursion: Out of Memory - Personality Dumped. > ______________________________ ____________________________ > / Computer Science Student __/\ Class of /_ Primary Email Address: /\ > / Millersvile University /_ \/\ ?? __/ god@yinyang.hjsoft.com / /\ > /_(Taking a 1 semester break)_/\ /___________________________/ / > \_____________________________\/ Linux \___________________________\/ > \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 'nuff said \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

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