udev and tty (pty)

[Deron Meranda]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:04:19 +0100, Reinhard Sy
<reinhard at meinberlikomm.de> wrote:
> Now I am using S-PLUS ( Statistics Software). If I start the software as
> follows:
> 
> *rsy at puffin*[11:33][~][5]> Splus -e
> cled: can't open master pty ("/dev/ptyq0"): No such file or directory

This sounds like the software you are using is coded to very old Unix
standards.  The old /dev/pty[qrst]? devices files haven't been around
for a while.  The Unix98 standard introduced a new and better way for
programs to allocate pseudo master/slave terminate devices.

Read: man pts

This likely isn't a udev thing.  In fact it's not really specific to
just Linux, except that Linux finally has dropped support for the old
deprecated interfaces.  Many other non-Linux Unices have also adopted
the new way as well.

Do you have source to the application?

-- 
Deron Meranda