On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:39:09PM -0600, Richard Todd wrote: > I managed to work around the immediate problem and stop my script from > complaining by bludgeoning the p5-IO-Tty Makefile.PL with a blunt instrument > to make it think this system didn't support grantpt() etc. (causing the module > to fall back to other methods of dealing with ptys). The proper fix for > grantpt.c is less clear, though. Changing it to figure the proper pty > major number by stating a known pty node (say, /dev/ptyp0) would work, but from > what I understand that's going to break when phk commits his forthcoming > patch which will make the whole concept of major numbers go away. Any ideas? Just remove all knowledge of device majors/minors from the module. Why should it care? All it could possibly do with that information is sanity-check that the device name (that it already knows how to generate) isn't somehow replaced with something else. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green_at_FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\Received on Fri Mar 04 2005 - 13:44:17 UTC
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