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Re: [patch] assume working unix98 PTYs


From: Paweł Kot
Subject: Re: [patch] assume working unix98 PTYs
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:09:38 +0100
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Dnia wto 11. stycznia 2005 13:14, David Vrabel napisał:
> It doesn't seem necessary to do configure time check for working UNIX98
> PTYs.  I would consider it sufficient to check for grantpt().

Are you sure? I belive it was not enough at the time it was written.

> I considered making it a run time test but decided not to -- any
> reasonably recent system will have support for UNIX98 PTYs.

And probably we can't assume that. Slackware 4.0 did not have and it was the 
OS where I wrote that ;-)

pkot
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