On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:39:49PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: > Which form is better (a) or b))? > > a) > > char slave[80]; > ... > > if (openpty(&masterfd, &slavefd, slave, NULL, NULL) < 0)
char slave[PATH_MAX] ? I think it's a reasonable assumption that no library function will return (on any system out there) a path longer than PATH_MAX. > if (openpty(&masterfd, &slavefd, NULL, NULL, NULL) < 0) > ... > > slave = ptsname(masterfd); 'ttyname(slavefd)' will do.
