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Re: [bug-gawk] gawk 4.0.1: support for posix_openpt()
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: [bug-gawk] gawk 4.0.1: support for posix_openpt() |
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Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:14:05 +0200 |
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Hi. Re this:
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 21:27:21 +0100
> From: Christian Weisgerber <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] gawk 4.0.1: support for posix_openpt()
> Status: R
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> Currently gawk tries to open PTYs either by cloning from /dev/ptmx
> or by falling back to trying /dev/pty* devices.
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> It would be nice if the posix_openpt() POSIX API was supported, for
> platforms like OpenBSD-current that implement it but don't have
> /dev/ptmx.
Thanks for the patch. I didn't know about the posix_openpt() API.
Arnold