Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 13:37:40 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no ptX device found Message-ID: <441umzg84b.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20120503192205.65F2CA6217@smtp3-g21.free.fr> ("Raoul =?iso-8859-1?Q?=5C=22M=E9g=E9las=5C=22=22's?= message of "Thu, 03 May 2012 21:21:01 %2B0200") References: <20120503192205.65F2CA6217@smtp3-g21.free.fr>
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Raoul "M=E9g=E9las" <rmgls@free.fr> writes: > I dislike crossposting, but i have had no reply for this problem. > Please have you any doc on this topic, i does not find > anythikng in the man pages, nor in UPDATING. > see below, the message posted on current. I'm not running current, but I don't think that matters for this. I'm guessing you haven't read the manual for pty(4)? pty devices seem fairly obsolescent. > On current, since about 3 months, no pty device is created. > i see only a pts[0] in dev. > screen (4.0.1, we cannot use a higher version, for good raisons) > does not find any pty device and does not attach. > How can i create at least one? It should be created automatically when you try to access it.=20 If it's trying to examine the device before opening it, using stat()=20 or something similar might get the device to trigger. > my ttys seems to have no effect. I am pretty sure i miss somemthing. > In another hand, i see nothing in the man pages on this topic. pty devices seem to only be present for backward compatibility, and I don't see them actually needed on any of my systems.
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