81816 – joe editor can't handle pseudo-terminals

Bug 81816 - joe editor can't handle pseudo-terminals

Summary: joe editor can't handle pseudo-terminals

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Tom Knight (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2005-02-12 18:52 UTC by Lindsay Haisley
Modified:	2005-07-02 03:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Lindsay Haisley 2005-02-12 18:52:15 UTC

Joe expects to find legacy ptys when trying to run and capture the output of a program from within a joe window (ESC-!).  If support for legacy ptys isn't compiled into the kernel, the message "No ptys available" is displayed.  A quick look at the source code for joe j(tty.c) indicates that this is indeed the case and there's no code in place to handle ptmx/pts support.

The problem can be addressed by recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS enabled, with the result that /dev gets cluttered up with a lot of (mostly) unneeded devices and device links since most programs that need pseudo-terminals are built with support for the 2.6 kernel modern pseudo-terms.

Comment 1 Tom Knight (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-02 03:55:33 UTC

I've reported this upstream
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1231442&group_id=23475&atid=378598