[comp.sys.apollo] pty problems at 10.3

Bill_Horsthemke_at_CTC@RELAY.PROTEON.COM (04/25/91)

Has anyone experienced corrupted pty "pseudoterminals".
We need to remake the /dev pty devices twice a month.
The bad pty's present with half screen displays:
cat a file and get only 40 characters followed
with a \ "newline", and other problems.

Our setting: DN10K 10.3 BSD with emacs 18.55, ethernet,
and tcp/ip; pc's connect using NCSA and FTP telnet,
and or GSS PC/Xview.

Tried patch 222 and 219: new domain_os and /lib/streams.
Only worse: with new pty's running emacs produces
segmentation fault in all shell environments.

? Is flow control the problem ?

/thanks

Bill_Horsthemke_at_CTC@relay.proteon.com

etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell) (04/26/91)

In article <9104260427.AA02931@monk.proteon.com> Bill_Horsthemke_at_CTC@RELAY.PROTEON.COM writes:
>Has anyone experienced corrupted pty "pseudoterminals".
>We need to remake the /dev pty devices twice a month.
>
>Our setting: DN10K 10.3 BSD with emacs 18.55, ethernet,
>and tcp/ip; pc's connect using NCSA and FTP telnet,
>and or GSS PC/Xview.
>

Yeah, the pty's are still broken at 10.3, on the m68k version
also. I have a cron job rebuild them weekly, and even that
sometimes is not often enough.

I haven't tried any 10.3 patches yet. I see that a new patch
tape seems to have been released, however.

-- 
Eric Bushnell
Univ of Washington Civil Engineering
etb@u.washington.edu