udev and tty (pty)

[Reinhard Sy]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2004, 09:02 -0500 schrieb 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?
No - and the producer of the software said that Fedora Core is not
Supported - Thanks - I will try to run the software inside of (x)emacs
and see how readline/comandline editing can be used!

> 
> -- 
> Deron Meranda
Reinhard Sy