On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:37:34AM -0500, Jonathan Prescott wrote: > Well, let’s just say that, on MacOS Catalina 10.15.3, the xterm I had > installed, the latest at the time from MacPorts, failed in the way everyone > has been noting lately. I did my periodic update of MacPorts, and I noticed > that xterm was updated this cycle. After the MacPorts update, xterm worked > like everyone is expecting. Now, whether it was xterm that was fixed, or an > X11 related library (that’s all I use MacPorts for), I couldn’t tell you. > However, it was not a change in the operating system, or XQuartz (not X11 > server), since these didn’t change.
I don't know - since nothing relevant changed in xterm (it's been almost all font-related/display-related things in the past year). A few years ago someone had a problem with those symptoms which was apparently due to MacOS/OSX associating permissions to the _pseudo terminal_. In a quick check, it seems I last revised that in 2011. I upgraded one of my machines to Catalina in October to investigate this (there are a couple of pty-interfaces which _could_ be used, and possibly Apple's broken a different one in Catalina), but found no corresponding problem (but that one started as Mohave - upgrades from older releases, I think, accumulate crud that Apple doesn't cleanup). If the problem is related to file-permissions (and acls), I suppose it's also possible that an unrelated upgrade will replace some file and suddenly relieve some bug. But I don't know to advise you on that -- only on things that I can reproduce :-) > Jonathan > > > On Feb 6, 2020, at 3:54 AM, Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > | From: "Apple X11 Users' List" <[email protected]> > > | To: "David Ledger" <[email protected]> > > | Cc: "Apple X11 Users' List" <[email protected]> > > | Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:35:37 PM > > | Subject: Re: xterm operation not permitted > > > > | I just updated my MacPorts distribution, and the new xterm seems to have > > been > > | fixed so that it works on Catalina as you would expect. > > | Jonathan > > > > that's not due to a change in xterm, but some permissions bug in the > > pseudo-terminal support. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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