Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: HOWTO for PTY98 out there? | Date | 17 Aug 1998 19:37:47 GMT |
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Followup to: <vyz90knvn1m.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> By author: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > UNIX98 ptys require a new API: grantpt/unlockpt/ptsname. This is not yet > implemented in GNU libc 2.0. The implementation in GNU libc 2.1 is > transparent in the way that it will fall back to BSD ptys if UNIX98 ptys > are not available. One program that knows about UNIX98 ptys is expect > (must be reconfigured/recompiled to take advantage of it). >
Actually, it probably won't be in the final 2.1; it causes too many problems (you need root privilege to properly initialize a BSD pty, but not a Unix98 pty with devpts.)
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