On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> > The real question for me is why do you mix openpty and grantpt at all?
> > You should use posix_openpt and grantpt for this purpose.
> 
> Don't shoot the messenger. IO-Tty uses openpty and grantpt this way, I
> am only trying to make it work on NetBSD again.

Sorry, this was a "you == source code author", nothing personal.

> From what I found on the web, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (since 3.0),
> Solaris and AIX support posix_openpt() and grantpt(), so I will probably 
> propose this route to the author(s). Meanwhile I will add a patch for
> NetBSD to pkgsrc which is as unintrusive as possible.

Behaviour should be to use posix_openpt + grantpt if available and
otherwise fallback to openpty. The latter provides the same
functionality, but should require root permissions.

Joerg