Re: pty problems in 2.1.115
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Aug 1998 22:51:47 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980807171209.252A-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
By author: "Michael L. Galbraith" <mikeg@weiden.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 robert@bga.com wrote:
>
> > 2.1.115 compiled and fine on my machine, but when I tried to start X
> > none of the xterms came up. It seems they're having problems opening
> > ptys. Also I cannot "telnet localhost", same problem. I noticed this
> > /dev/ptmx thing in 2.1.115, and although I didn't see any reason why
> > rxvt or telnet would be trying to use that system, I figured I'd set
> > it up and see what happened. Well, not much happened :) Is anyone
> > else having problems? Back to pre-2.1.115-4 for now,
>
> No problem here. Glibc-2.0.95 and Xfree-3.3.2. I was kinda suprised to
> find that mount handles it with no patching, but it does :) I don't have
> anything that uses them to test with though :(
>
> Anyone know of a package that'll use these automagical little beasties?
>
My understanding was that glibc-2.0.95 would do it, but perhaps xterm
& co haven't caught up with glibc yet.
-hpa
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