Bug#42986: [Konsole-devel] Bug#42986: Problem with konsole_grantpty

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 29 August 2002 04:45 pm, Michael Samuel wrote:
> I've spent a while tracking down the FreeBSD problem with chownpty, and
> it seems that the problem is with the dup2() failing before spawning
> konsole_grantpty. (When dup2() fails, you're just silently exiting,
> rather than printing and error)
>
> I can't see any reason why this would fail (it's failing and setting
> errno to EBADF), and I even added some printf()s to my kernel code, and
> the _only_ place where EBADF can be reported by the dup2 system call
> isn't being hit.
>
> The file descriptor is definately valid, as I added a fcntl(fd, F_GETFD)
> right before the dup2(), and the fcntl succeeds.

Can it be that the problem is with PTY_FILENO? Does it matter if you add a 
close(PTY_FILENO) in front of it?

Cheers,
Waldo
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