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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: tty/ptys getting wasted?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.031623.7623@reed.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 03:16:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep11.031623.7623
- References: <1992Sep10.001635.20812@reed.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- Thanks to Rob McNicholas for the quick response on Ultrix 4.2 and ptys
- getting lost. He says that this is one of the bugs that was fixed in
- Ultrix 4.2a, and that a patch had been released in the past.
-
- >This patch is to resolve a problem where ptys are becoming unusable
- >for later processes after being used by an earlier process which is
- >being abnormally terminated. A bit (TS_WOPEN) in the tty state field
- >is not being properly cleaned up by the process termination code when
- >the first process is being forced to exit. This causes susbequent
- >processes that attempt to use that pty to see it as unavailable.
-
- sounds exactly like what we are seeing. Boy, I hope they're still
- giving out patches to Ultrix 4.2. If they're not, is it at all legal
- for me to get another Ultrix 4.2 user to give me the .o file?
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