From kde-devel  Mon Jul 26 15:46:03 1999
From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel () lauterbach ! com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:46:03 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1_1_BRANCH: kvt, pty and glibc-2.1 still broken
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At 17:27 26.07.99 , nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> >>>>> "Franz" == Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
>
>     >> The test of the lib version is not sufficient.  pty98 is still a
>     >> kernel option - it depends on 3 things:
>     >> kernel version
>     >> lib version
>     >> installation option
>
>     Franz> why? getpt() in glibc-2.1 handles that for you. That's what 
> makes the
>     Franz> implementation so easy.
>
>Really?  I didn't know that.  You mean that getpt() will work
>correctly on glibc-2.1 with or without pty98 kernel support?

Yes, I just checked the code. If it cannot open /dev/ptmx it falls back 
back to the old /dev/ptyXY stuff.

Franz.