Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > It seems that oldstyle BSD ptys have always been disabled in the > PowerPC kernels (contrary to the x86 kernels). At least this is > the case in linux-image-2.6.18-5-powerpc 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch1: > > ay:~> grep CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS /boot/config-2.6.18-

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 13:14:09 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > software that relies on the oldstyle BSD ptys is dead. > > we didn't want to disable it late in the etch game, > but for lenny the decision is made. It seems that oldstyle BSD ptys have always been disabled in the PowerPC kernels (contrary

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Roger Leigh
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-08-27 11:54:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with >> >> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's >> >> fail to work. See bug 430632 f

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:23:03PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 11:54:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with > > >> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's > > >> fail t

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > OK. But CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS was defined in official Debian x86 > kernels, so that most maintainers probably could not see the > problems, and it could take months/years to get them fixed. Err, switching for BSD PTYs to POSIX PTYs is not hard at all

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with > CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's > fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. ttyrec supports the usage of openpty, but with two problem

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 11:54:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with > >> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's > >> fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. > >It might help if you asked the kern

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with >> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's >> fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. >It might help if you asked the kernel team. :) CC added. I think we call these packages "badly

Re: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:58 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with > CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's > fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. It might help if you asked the kernel team. :) CC added. --

CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set on PowerPC

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, Any one knows why official PowerPC kernels are configured with CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS unset? This makes programs using some pty's fail to work. See bug 430632 for instance. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: