On 2018-04-19 13:58, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2018, at 06:49, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> On 2018-04-19 13:31, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> I can't seem to use Expect in a portfile. [...] >>> >>> The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more. >> >> This is probably due to sandboxing. I guess Expect wants to open some >> device such as /dev/ptmx read/write, but is not allowed to do so. > > Maybe. The error message is printed when exp_getptymaster() (in pty_unicos.c) > returns -1. It's hard to follow exactly what that function does. It has a log > of diagnostic log lines (expDiagLog(...)) but I can't figure out how to get > Expect to print those diagnostics. > > I could try adding some paths to the sandbox whitelist.
You can check in Console.app for sandbox violations. Or run this command in another terminal window parallel to the port process: $ log stream --predicate '(process == "sandboxd")' --level error Rainer
