Re: PTS alocation problem with 2.6.4/2.6.5

[Jamie Lokier]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> You need a glibc upgrade - we broke things for really old glibc's.  We're
> (slowly) working on fixing it up.

Looking at patch-2.6.4, there are plenty of minor changes to the pty
code but nothing that looks like it would break userspace except for
_very_ old glibcs that don't know about /dev/pts at all and just used
the legacy ones.

I have some _non-glibc_ pty code that I wish to keep working.  Can you
briefly explain how it breaks with moderately old glibcs such as the
glibc-2.3.3 that's said to be inadequate, and therefore what interface
change is needed in non-glibc code?

Thanks,
-- Jamie
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