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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: help - make GNU display-time NOT use a pty
Message-ID: <16402@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 02:34:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.16402
Posted: Mon Sep  7 02:34:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Sep-87 01:31:08 EDT
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On systems that have ptys, GNU prefers to use them for all subprocesses
including the display-time function.  Ultrix appears to allow a maximum
of 96 ptys, and we are running short of them, so I'd like to make
display-time use a pipe instead.

In process.c, it says that if the lisp variable "process-connection-type"
is nil, the interprocess link will be a pipe (and a pty if 't'), but not
knowing lisp, I don't know how to set it nil ONLY FOR THE DISPLAY-TIME
FUNCTION.  I don't want other kinds of subprocesses (like shell buffers)
to be forced to use pipes as well.

I'm hoping that there's some lisp incantation that I can put into
time.el to do the trick.

Thanks,
Mike Khaw
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