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SubjectRe: Slightly off-topic - glibc 2.1

openpty() are defined in -lutil, my system is working perfectly fine with
Unix98 pty's but a lot of system utilities (procps, shadow-utils etc)
needed to be slightly modified.

Ralf Wierzbicki

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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Shannon Aldinger wrote:

> rom: Dustin Marquess
> <jailbird@alcatraz.fdf.net>
> > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:44:49 -0600 (CST)
> > Subject: Re: Slightly off-topic - glibc 2.1
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> >
> > > iirc, they had some licensing problems with db2.
> > >
> > > its up again. Just checked. there is a new LICENSE file in db2 subdir, if you
> > > are interested.
>
> I don't like that they pulled the stat functions out into a seperate
> static library. Alot of things nag about "_xstat" undefined if not linked
> against libc_nonshared.a. Also the unix 98 pty support seems to be
> lacking. openpty() is prototyped extern in <pty.h>, but never defined
> elsewhere. They also change utmpx stuff so ssh-2.0.12 at least is broken.
> So much for glibc2.0 being the last version without binary compatability.
>
> Does anyone have devpts stuff working with glibc2.1? Do you have to link
> in another library to define openpty()?
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