As another example that way relate to this... I have found that when using ppp
over ssh, that if the connection comes up with a bunch of errors, that
switching to a different pty seems to fix it.
No sure that this is the exact same problem, but may be another related angle,
JES
On Sep 25, 11:53pm, Lars Fenneberg wrote:
> Subject: Re: Bug in pty re-usage
> Hi all!
>
> You, Thorsten Kuehnemann, said:
>
> > In linux.dev.kernel Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> wrote:
> > >If a master pty is closed and then re-opened while the client side
> > >remains open, the second open of the master side will succeed. I think
> > >this is incorrect behaviour. It can lead to a situation where a new
> > >master allocates the same pty and ends up with two slaves on the same
> > >slave device.
> >
> > noone answered to that problem in the last five weeks, but at least
> > Thomas Roessler <roessler@sobolev.rhein.de> and i have problems with
> > linux-2.0.X pty's too:
> >
> > We found that Linux 2 breaks some pty-programs, e.g. xconsole, script,
screen,
> > old X11R6 xterms, some pty-programs work (in.telnetd).
>
> I have seen similiar problems with a combination of xterms and scipt.
> script started to return immediately without doing anything and I had
> to start another xterm (allocating another pty) to make script run
> again.
>
> Just to let you know that there are other people suffering from this
> problem.
>
> Regards,
> Lars.
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