Bug#121899: No wonder it segfaults
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:20:01AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:01:10 -0500,
> H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
[snip]
> > At any rate, I tried this with xterm, and got:
> > xterm: unable to access pty device: Permission denied
> >
> > I'm not sure if Branden worked around the problem in xterm, or upstream
> > has fixed the problem. Perhaps this bug should be closed.
>
> I also don't know it's already fixed, but at least I think it's not
> glibc bug.
>
> Branden, please check your latest X11, and could I close this bug?
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IMHO, this bug should be closed. The latest xterm (4.2.1-4 on my machine)
doesn't SEGV anymore; it correctly displays an error message and exits
cleanly. I think this addresses the issue raised in the original bug
report.
T
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