Re: [uml-devel] openpty

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

fel...@fe... said:
> Attached is a prototype patch to make at least the xterm code use
> openpty instead, which is an abstraction invented to make the kind of
> pty nightmare obsolete that uml uses.

After looking at this patch more closely, I think I can't use it.  The problem
is this in the existing code which is deleted in yours:

	info.tty[0] = dev[strlen("/dev/pty")];
	info.tty[1] = dev[strlen("/dev/ptyX")];

Because of the wierdness of xterm's command line, it wants the -S switch
to look like -Sxxnn and it opens /dev/ttyxx.  This doesn't seem at all
compatible with devfs (or pts for that matter), which sticks all 
pseudo-terminals under a subdirectory of /dev.  If devfsd makes normal-looking
symlinks from /dev/ttyxx into that subdirectory, then that will make things
work.

				Jeff