jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) (11/06/90)
We're having a problem with MIT xterm on our big MIPS with 4.51 (I think). The xterm is using the BSD style pty devices, and often, when the machine is busy (i.e. a lot of pty's in use), xterm fails on startup with xterm: Error 23, errno 62: Timer expired as a result of this ioctl failing: if (ioctl (tty, TIOCSETP, (char *)&sg) == -1) HsSysError (cp_pipe[1], ERROR_TIOCSETP); where tty is the fd of the slave side of the pty (e.g. /dev/ttyr2). I haven't gone way into the thing to figure out exactly what parameters it is trying to set, but it shouldn't be anything really weird. I was wondering if some kernel config parameter needs to be boosted to allow more streams resources, or more BSD style pty's, but we couldn't find anything too useful. I wonder if we have only the BSD p and q pty's configured, and when we try to use ptyr[0123] etc we hit problems? Any ideas? Thanks very much John Sellens U of Waterloo jmsellens@dragon.waterloo.edu