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SubjectRe: 2.0.21 PTY patch (was: Bug in pty re-usage)
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Thorsten Kuehnemann (thorsten@actis.de) wrote:

: With that patch you can't open a pty-master if there is an old process
: always running at the slave side of the pty. This emulates the behaviour
: of HP-UX 10, Solaris 2.4, Sinix 5.42 and SCO OS5 and makes programs
: like screen, script, xconsole, old xterm and others work with Linux-2.0.X
: even under special conditions.

I can only stress the importantness of this patch. It's really
annoying if you have 5 users/day telling you they couldn't log in via
telnet ... another 5 which got xterms without a shell-prompt.

-Winfried

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