I setup a kFreeBSD machine to check this, and agree that the configuration and build work. But utempter is doing nothing with the calls. I added a few trace messages to see what data is passed. (As an aside, in my current changes, I've modified xterm to use posix_openpt). I agree with your comment here: >However, I am amongst other things suspicious of the checking >against "/dev/" and whether "/dev/pts/5" with Linux versus >"/dev/ttyp6" with kFreeBSD could have a bearing here. However, if that is the cause, then it's likely a problem with utempter being confused, rather than xterm. There is a /dev/pts in kFreeBSD, but ptsname returns the /dev/ttyp6, etc. Another place to look is that utempter has an "old" interface (which xterm uses) and a "new". Perhaps its developers have broken the old interface (xvt's source in sid doesn't show your NMU - where can I find that?) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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