On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: >i'm about to switch to kernel 2.2.0pre6, and in the configuration i saw that i >can use the unix98 pty system rather than the old ptyxx/ttyxx. if i do this, >will important things (i.e. xterm, incoming telnets) break?
IIRC, the unix98 pty system support is for use with glibc2.1 only (not glibc2.0, which most distros, debian included, use). I believe it mentions this in the config help. -ed
