Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:21:54 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: matlab6 & /dev/ptmx Message-ID: <E177sAc-0006c6-00@cse.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 14 May 2002 18:16:20 %2B0200 (MET DST) .
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> You can LD_PRELOAD a library that replaces open() and catches
> the open("/dev/ptmx") special case, then does a BSD opentty()
> and returns the file descriptor of the tty. (Of course you'll
> have to compile this library on Linux for the LD_PRELOADing to
> work, and modify the Matlab startup script to set LD_PRELOAD
> right before it exec's the binary. That makes it a bit more of a
> hassle).
>
> A colleague of mine has written a small library to do this.
> For a short period of time, you can find it at this address:
>
> http://www.math.ntnu.no/~perhov/public/tmp/fake_ptmx/
>
> Btw: Matlab 6.1 seems to work better than 6.0 in this respect,
> as no LD_PRELOADing is necessary.
thanks!,
danny
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