TheOldFellow wrote: > Having just built a new LFS/Xorg using mostly book methods, I came to > configure the kernel (2.6.23.8) and running oldconfig suggested that > the BSD-style Ptys were deprecated - I seem to remember this has been > the case for some while. However, I don't know of an X-terminal > emulator that doesn't need ptys, and they are used for other purposes.
BSD-style ptys are things like /dev/ptyp8. They are indeed deprecated, and /dev/pts/* should be used instead (and the openpty() function from glibc, that xterm calls, does the right thing with /dev/pts). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
