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Re: pty is preferred instead of pts.



onsdag den 27 november 2013 klockan 23:24 skrev Robert Millan detta:
> On 27/11/2013 19:14, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> > I have observed that GNU/kFreeBSD with kernel 9.0-2
> > returns master descriptors from the depreciated pty(4)
> > when calling forkpty(3), not from the expected pts(4),
> > which is the case for FreeBSD proper as well as
> > GNU/Linux. Why and how does this come about?
> > One negative aspect of this is that the master/slave
> > pair are not automatically deleted with similar ease.
> 
> See: #667448

In conclusion: This will stay broken in Wheezy because of libc0.1,
but is already resolved positively in Jessie.

Thank you for the pointer,
  Mats E A


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