Eric,
> > * doc/posix-functions/posix_openpt.texi: Mention ENOENT error code.
>
> Which platforms failed with ENOENT?
On those platforms that don't have posix_openpt() already, except AIX
and native Windows, you attempt to open /dev/ptmx. If it does not exist,
the function fails with ENOENT. This is the case at least on OpenBSD 4.9,
Minix 3.1.8, possibly also on MacOS X 10.3, BeOS.
> And on those platforms, is there an
> alternative to opening a master side, perhaps by iterating through the
> list of pty pairs in /dev until a master side is successfully opened?
The comments in lib/openpty.c say so, yes.
Bruno
2011-10-20 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
openpty: Update comments.
* lib/openpty.c: Add comments about Minix.
--- lib/openpty.c.orig Thu Oct 20 11:42:29 2011
+++ lib/openpty.c Thu Oct 20 11:42:03 2011
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
/* If all this does not work, we could try to open, one by one:
- On MacOS X: /dev/pty[p-w][0-9a-f]
- On *BSD: /dev/pty[p-sP-S][0-9a-v]
+ - On Minix: /dev/pty[p-q][0-9a-f]
- On AIX: /dev/ptyp[0-9a-f]
- On HP-UX: /dev/pty[p-r][0-9a-f]
- On OSF/1: /dev/pty[p-q][0-9a-f]
--
In memoriam Eduard Brücklmeier <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Brücklmeier>
