From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17551 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 08:43:43 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 08:43:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 20841 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2002 08:43:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16811 Received: (qmail 20828 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 08:43:37 -0000 From: Sven Wischnowsky MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15501.49040.499816.469598@wischnow.berkom.de> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:42:56 +0100 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Y test failures (zpty) In-Reply-To: <1020311192523.ZM27256@candle.brasslantern.com> References: <20020311053241.GA9027@dman.com> <1020311182942.ZM27214@candle.brasslantern.com> <20020311190231.GA21327@dman.com> <1020311192523.ZM27256@candle.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.5 (patch 3) "asparagus" XEmacs Lucid 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@berkom.de