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From: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: pty problems at 10.3
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.165553.17465@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:55:53 GMT
References: <9104260427.AA02931@monk.proteon.com>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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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