[Clfs-support] ***SPAM*** Binutils Chapter 10 part 14

[Chris Staub]

On 10/13/2009 05:27 AM, Chris Staub wrote:
>> So as I am running the install as a user this would be my problem?
>> How do I go about having more ptys available? (I followed the
>> instructions
>> in 8.3 - mount -f -vt devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 devpts ${CLFS}/dev/pts
>> although would note that /dev/pts has nothing in it)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Grail
>>
> Unfortunately I also have no idea about a solution, but then I haven't
> really tried that hard as I generally don't run testsuites much anyway.
> I've googled for a fix, and the closest thing I can find is a Debian
> patch -
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/e/eglibc/eglibc_2.9-20ubuntu2/changelog
> (the "unlockpt" one) - which according to further searching seems to be
> just modifying [glibc source]/sysdeps/unix/bsd/unlockpt.c and changing
> "sizeof (_PATH_TTY) + 2" to just "1024". I can't find anything else on
> the details of exactly what problem it's supposed to fix so I really
> have no idea whether it even has anything to do with root/non-root
> permissions issues, but it's worth a try I guess, unless someone has a
> better solution...

Nope, that doesn't work...still looking for other ideas...