Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 10:37:11 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP Message-ID: <199606051437.KAA09887@exalt.x.org>
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I said: >Things I note thus far: > ># ls -l /dev/tty >crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1, 0 5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty > >really wants to be: > >crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 1, 0 5 Jun 10:16 /dev/tty > >otherwise xterm cannot open it. Breaking xterm is a Bad Thing (tm). > >There's another problem with xterm not being able to get a pty >that I'll have to look into. Same problem. The permissions on the ptys, i.e. /dev/ptyp? don't have group or other write permission, causing the open in xterm to fail. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY
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