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

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Nov 1998 18:48:23 GMT

Followup to: <19981119151632.A2342@planetfall.com>
By author: Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Never mind, a few printk()'s later I found out I had to use TIOCSPTLCK
> to unlock the slave. The comment in the kernel led me to believe that
> was only for BSD semantics... I assume it is normal for Unix98 as well.
>

Actually, it's only for Unix98 semantics that the slave is locked by
default.

-hpa

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