Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 01:21:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: pty problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960309011459.4317A-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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I had a need to use slattach with a pty to connect an application
that understands SLIP to the kernel networking.
It appears that the pty driver causes an error if ioctl's are
sent to it that are meaningless to a pty, but needed for a serial
port. Slattach will bomb with these errors.
Is there some reason that the pty driver must return an error when
it receives an ioctl that it cannot use? I tried to modify the source
to just ignore meaningless ioctls, and managed to crash the kernel!
Who is the person that maintains the pty driver?
-regards
-Jim Durham
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