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Subject: Re: /dev/tty and nits in 2.2-960501-SNAP
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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 10:37:11 EST
From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@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.


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Kaleb KEITHLEY