[5972] in Kerberos
Re: FYI on IRIX 5.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Olson)
Mon Oct 9 07:23:09 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 9 Oct 1995 05:34:31 GMT
From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman) writes:
| If your change is portable--that is, it tests something more
| likely to be portable than the definition of SGI or IRIX or whatever
| the SGI defines for its ptys, please send it to krb5-bugs@mit.edu so
| we can include it. If you weren't able to find a portable test,
| that's OK; I'll eventually be able to test under 5.3.
Under irix, you need to use _getpty() to get pty's; we don't create
more than a small number by default.
| One question: why didn't the streams code before that pick up
| that Irix has streams and totally avoid using the pty devices?
Yuck. pty's are to be preferred.
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