On Apr 19, 2018, at 07:19, Rainer Müller wrote: > 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.
Thanks. This fixes it for me: https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/81 Is that safe to commit? > Or run this command in another terminal window parallel to the port process: > > $ log stream --predicate '(process == "sandboxd")' --level error