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> You can LD_PRELOAD a library that replaces open() and catches
> the open("/dev/ptmx") special case, then does a BSD opentty()
> and returns the file descriptor of the tty. (Of course you'll
> have to compile this library on Linux for the LD_PRELOADing to
> work, and modify the Matlab startup script to set LD_PRELOAD
> right before it exec's the binary. That makes it a bit more of a
> hassle).
> 
> A colleague of mine has written a small library to do this.
> For a short period of time, you can find it at this address:
> 
>    http://www.math.ntnu.no/~perhov/public/tmp/fake_ptmx/
> 
> Btw: Matlab 6.1 seems to work better than 6.0 in this respect,
> as no LD_PRELOADing is necessary.

thanks!,

        danny



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