From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 14 12:12:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Daffy.timing.com (daffy.timing.com [206.168.13.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FB637B404 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 12:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brain.timing.com (brain.timing.com [206.168.13.195]) by Daffy.timing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4EJB5W33086; Tue, 14 May 2002 13:11:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: from brain.timing.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brain.timing.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4EJB4M8016491; Tue, 14 May 2002 13:11:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jhein@brain.timing.com) Received: (from jhein@localhost) by brain.timing.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g4EJB3jG016488; Tue, 14 May 2002 13:11:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from jhein) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15585.24903.519760.794763@brain.timing.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:11:03 -0600 From: John E Hein To: Niek Bergboer Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: stable-digest V5 #525 In-Reply-To: <20020514142128.O57972@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> References: <20020514142128.O57972@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD doesn't implement Unix98 ptys. There was some talk on NetBSD a while ago about implementing them. I don't know the current status. See also the thread last August on freebsd-emulation: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=28463+0+archive/2001/freebsd-emulation/20010812.freebsd-emulation You could work around this by faking what ptmx does under the Linuxulator. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message