Unix98 PTYs and Changes/devices.txt

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:35:58 -0500 (EST)

i'm trying to figure out the changes that needs to be made to /dev/** to
enable this feature to work.

I completely shagged the /dev/tty* stuff following the information
contained in Changes/devices.txt in Documentation.

It seems that Slack_whore_ (3.1 which was the original installation on
this machine) defines /dev/ttyN as members of character device major 4.
The Changes says to create ttyN as device major 3. Huh? What gives? Yet
again, the device.txt presents conflicting information, so I'm
thoroughtly confused now. :/ If I change to major 3, agetty/init gets very
unhappy.

Is there any resources out there which explains this better?

Also, X complains about not being allowed to operate upon /dev/ttypN
devices - this was what prompted me to investigate and try and solve it.

And yes, I do have glibc-2.0.104 installed.

Cheers,
Alex

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Linux tahallah 2.1.130 #64 SMP Thu Nov 26 22:58:37 EST 1998
Two Intel Pentium Pro 166MHz processors, 331.78 total bogomips, 48M RAM
System library 2.0.104




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