Re: devfs v136, ZIP disks and glibc-2.1.2
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 23:31:57 +0100
Zack Weinberg wrote:
> This can't possibly work with BSD ptys, so there is an extension. If
> you replace the first open with
>
> mfd = getpt();
>
> then it is documented to work no matter what sort of ptys you have.
> But notice that we don't look for the slave till later. At that point
> it is too late to back up and switch to BSD ptys - the user already
> has the master fd squirreled away.
Maybe dup2 is the solution?
-- Jamie
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