jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) (03/02/90)
I'm having a problem with the R4 xterm on MIPS RISC/os 4.0 having to do with /dev/tty. If I rlogin to the mips machine (i.e. /dev/tty is connected) and run xterm, /dev/tty is ok in the xterm. If I use rsh instead, as in rsh mips-machine xterm the xterm does not have a /dev/tty available to it. I've tried all the combinations of TIONOTTY, and closing and opening ttys, and setpgrp() that I can think of, but I've been unable to fix this problem. I notice that the MIPS version of xterm (licensed for a different machine here) does not have this problem. I'm using SYSTYPE_BSD for compiling. Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas? I'm starting to think there's a bug in RISC/os itself, but tty and termio documentation and the xterm main.c being what they are, it's sort of hard to generate a usable bug report to MIPS. Thanks for any advice, John Sellens University of Waterloo jmsellens@dragon.waterloo.edu