Messages in this thread | | | From | James MacLean <> | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:58:36 -0300 | Subject | Re: Bug in pty re-usage |
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Hi Everyone,
As another example that way relate to this... I have found that when using ppp over ssh, that if the connection comes up with a bunch of errors, that switching to a different pty seems to fix it.
No sure that this is the exact same problem, but may be another related angle, JES
On Sep 25, 11:53pm, Lars Fenneberg wrote: > Subject: Re: Bug in pty re-usage > Hi all! > > You, Thorsten Kuehnemann, said: > > > In linux.dev.kernel Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> wrote: > > >If a master pty is closed and then re-opened while the client side > > >remains open, the second open of the master side will succeed. I think > > >this is incorrect behaviour. It can lead to a situation where a new > > >master allocates the same pty and ends up with two slaves on the same > > >slave device. > > > > noone answered to that problem in the last five weeks, but at least > > Thomas Roessler <roessler@sobolev.rhein.de> and i have problems with > > linux-2.0.X pty's too: > > > > We found that Linux 2 breaks some pty-programs, e.g. xconsole, script, screen, > > old X11R6 xterms, some pty-programs work (in.telnetd). > > I have seen similiar problems with a combination of xterms and scipt. > script started to return immediately without doing anything and I had > to start another xterm (allocating another pty) to make script run > again. > > Just to let you know that there are other people suffering from this > problem. > > Regards, > Lars. > -- > Lars Fenneberg, lf@elemental.net, phone: +49 40 524 42 24 > fingerprint D1 28 F1 FF 3C 6B C0 27 CC 9C 6C 09 34 0A 55 18 >-- End of excerpt from Lars Fenneberg
-- James B. MacLean macleajb@ednet.ns.ca Department of Education http://www.ednet.ns.ca/~macleajb/dosemu.html Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 4B2
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