On Jul 10 01:30:23, guent...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looks like a race in luit's startup, due to how it handles the
> > ttys/ptys.  To work around the problem, invoke it with the -p
> > option...but I don't know how you can convince xterm to do that.
> 
> Ha!  I believe this bug is a result of posix_openpt() being
> implemented in 5.3

When was this introduced into the snapshots?
I have been seeing this for some time before 5.3

> and the luit configure script picking that instead
> of openpty(), as the code for the former results in the client side
> being opened (by PTMGET), then closed, then reopened by name, which
> leaves a window where the master will read EOF.
> 
> Naddy, can you coerce configure into ignoring posix_openpt()?
> 
> 
> Philip Guenther

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