Paul Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The privileged (setuid root) command ptyfix is used from within executables
> that use the openpty() call. An example is xterm: with this helper, xterm
> itself does not need to be setuid.
The correct fix is to implement SysV-style PTYs. I think they are
required by SuSv2 as well. Only some BSD systems do not provide this
kind of PTYs, almost all other flavors do.
> Currently ptyfix works only on Compaq Tru64 UNIX (DEC OSF/1) machines.
The helper application is not required, you should open /dev/ptmx or
/dev/ptmx_bsd and use grantpt() and unlockpt(). (The True64 5.1
manpage suggests that openpty() already uses SysV PTYs, but that's not
mentioned in earlier versions, such as DIGITAL UNIX 4.0D.)
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