xterm, pty's, Sun OS 4.1.1

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From: Scott Erickson
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 18:40

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I'm having troubles with pty's on Sun 4 and Sun Sparc clients.

When telnetd is searching for a good pty, it does some sort of ioctl
on each device it tries until that ioctl fails.  Then, that pty is
assigned to the shell.

xterm does not do the special ioctl, so even though it can open the
slave side, the shell dies.

I could not find reference to this special ioctl in the "tty" section
of the Sun Reference Manual.  I would appreciate someone giving me the
scoop on this.

/se
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