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- From: eswu@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Eng-Shien Wu)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: xterm: no available ptys
- Message-ID: <eswu.714102363@rsx.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 01:46:03 GMT
- References: <BIS.92Aug14124438@maud.ifi.uio.no> <1992Aug16.014547.5054@uvm.edu>
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- Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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- wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) writes:
-
- >Get X11R5 and apply the following patch in the xterm directory. After
- >we did this, we never had to worry about pty problems again. (In a
- >nutshell: Xterm didn't know how to use /dev/ptc to allocate a PTY from
- >whole cloth, so it use /dev/[pt]ty[pqrs]? instead. Eventually, it ran
- >out. Even worse, it would occasionally pick up a PTY that still had
- >someone else's program running on it! This seems to have fixed both
- >problems when we were running AIX 3.1, and it hasn't hurt anything in
- >3.2. As a general rule, replace all your IBM X programs (except
- >Xibm!) with the X11R5 versions and you'll be much happier.)
-
- FYI: The multiplexed pty was fixed in MIT public patch 9 (it was
- included with the fix "xterm: orphaned shells on AIX if connection is
- lost" but it was not mentioned--oversight). Garrett's patch seems to
- do more things, like frevoke().
-
- --
- Eng-Shien Wu (eswu@expo.lcs.mit.edu)
- IBM Graphic Systems/MIT X Consortium
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