> On Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:17 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > ... > > BTW: I do not belive that MACOSX does not support pty's. > > It may do it in slightly different way, but quite a lot > > of unix programs (beggining with Xterm) would brake > > without pty's. > > > > I would be glad to hear more information about this. > I found several references on the web stating clearly that > the pty interface was not available on the MAC. With respect > to Xterm on MAC is did also see some references to special > purpose code in Xterm to provide some kind of emulation of > pty for the MAC. Maybe it would be possible use/adapt that > code... but that is beyond my level of experience and > available time. > > It would be greate if someone could share their knowledge > and experience with this issue. > I am affraid I can not really offer Mac experience. However the first Goole hit for: MACOSX pty is:
Mac OS X pty Permission Security Issue Now, something which does not exits should have no security problems, so I would belive that Mac OS X has pty. OTOH this security problem is solved by Unix 98 pty's (in other words Linux /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts), so we can infer that Mac OS X has only legacy pty (so you should use BSD branch). BTW: I you are logged into a Mac OS X machine you can try to look is '/dev' directory contains things like '/dev/ptyq0' and '/dev/ttyq0' (this is a traditional name for legacy pty's). -- Waldek Hebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer