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From: ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A few questions on the SysV shl program
Message-ID: <1998@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 15:57:13 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.145043.5428@investor.pgh.pa.us> <148@dy4.UUCP>
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In article <148@dy4.UUCP>, paul@dy4.uucp (Paul Burry) writes:
> In article <1989Nov14.145043.5428@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
> 
> >
> >1.	Write doesn't work to a shl layer.  We have a number of programs
> >[...]
> I once worked around this bug in "write" by linking the special files
> in /dev/sxt/ to special files in /dev/.  It seems that "write" 
> didn't realize that the sxt??? devices recorded in /etc/utmp really 
> refer to the special files /dev/sxt/???.
Not only write(1).  ttyname(3) fails on most systems, when the link into
/dev/sxt* is not done.  the bug is to move the sxt devices into a
subdirectory cause this breaks fundamental assumptions in many unix tools.

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