kpty warnings on OpenBSD

[Dave Feustel]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 06:08 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14. December 2004 11:09, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 December 2004 04:46 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > Does kgrantpty get compiled?
> >
> > I can't find kgrantpty*  on my system.
> >
> > > What do you get if you run "kgrantpty --grant 2"
> >
> > This command is not found.
> 
> You might want to ask Marc Espie about this, he is the maintainer of the 
> OpenBSD KDE ports and ought to know. From what I can see from OpenBSD's CVS, 
> kgrantpty was removed from the file list of the kdelibs package/port around 
> 3.2.1, perhaps something in OpenBSD's pty code changed at that time that 
> disabled compilation of kgrantpty. 
> 
In OpenBSD 3.5 the device /dev/ptm was introduced  which changed the way
ptys are allocated and handled. I suspect that had something to do with
why kgrantpty was removed. 

See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptm&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html