On Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:45 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > 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.
Yes you are right. The reference I read earlier was that OSX 10.3 does not have support for posix grantpt... Maybe things have change in OSX a lot since 10.3. > 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). > What do you mean by "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). > Yes, I see for example: ppc-osx3:~/osx $ ls /dev/ptyq* /dev/ptyq0 /dev/ptyq3 /dev/ptyq6 /dev/ptyq9 /dev/ptyqc /dev/ptyqf /dev/ptyq1 /dev/ptyq4 /dev/ptyq7 /dev/ptyqa /dev/ptyqd /dev/ptyq2 /dev/ptyq5 /dev/ptyq8 /dev/ptyqb /dev/ptyqe ppc-osx3:~/osx $ But when I try to build clef I get: ppc-osx3:~/osx/axiom.build-improvements/src/clef $ make gcc ./edible.o -L/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/axiom.build-improvements/src/clef/../../ ./src/lib -L/usr/lib -lspad -lc -o /home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/axiom.build-improvements/target/powerpc-ap ple-darwin6.8/bin/clef ld: warning table of contents of library: /home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/axiom.build-improvements/src/clef/../.././ src/lib/libspad.a not sorted slower link editing will result (use the ranlib(1) -s option) ld: Undefined symbols: _grantpt _ptsname _unlockpt ----------- These are all pty external routines. Maybe it is just that I don't understand that MAC library setup. >From what else I can get from the web, I should expect to find these functions in libc (-lc). Any ideas? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
