Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Lars Fenneberg) | Subject | Re: Bug in pty re-usage | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:53:07 +0200 (MET DST) |
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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
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