Messages in this thread | | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: Bug in pty re-usage | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:09:20 -0400 (EDT) |
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> From: Thorsten Kuehnemann <thorsten@actis.de> > No, not this problem Olaf and i described here, it does not > depend on installation environment. > > The described PTY-Error is the same with the old and the new pty device > numbers (i tested this before posting). > > *Please* do test it with > > - xterm > - "xclock &" in that xterm > - exit that xterm > - start "script" > > This bug affects _all_ pty-programs which reads from the master-pty > before opening the slave-pty, and there are some. > > Programs which open the slave-pty _before_ reading the master-pty are > not affected by this bug, there are some, too. > > It is definitively a bug in _all_ linux-2.0.X installations and it seems to > be easy to cure for a kernel guru who knows of the side effects when > doing changes in pty_open().
A fix was recently posted to comp.os.linux.development.kernel.
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