Re: Y test failures (zpty)

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Mar 11,  2:02pm, Clint Adams wrote:
> }
> } I have Unix98 ptys in /dev/pts (this is what nearly everything uses),
> } and I have /dev/pty?? as compatibility symlinks to /dev/pty/m[0-9]+.
> 
> Is it possible that all the /dev/pty?? terminals are simply used up?

First: I have 2.4.19pre1 with glibc 2.2.4, too, on my laptop and it
works fine.

I once had a similar problem on that Digital Unix box.  It turned out
that for some reason a /dev/ptyXX was free but the corresponding
/dev/ttyXX was not writable by anyone else than root.  That made
get_pty() fail, of course.

Maybe we should change that function to re-try /dev/pty's in that
case?  Haven't seen that problem anywhere else, though.


Bye
  Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                          wischnow@xxxxxxxxx