[bug-inetutils] Re: portable openpty, forkpty

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Alfred, Simon, et al.,
>
> FYI: There is now an openpty() replacement and a forkpty() replacement in
> gnulib, that are supposed to be portable to all significant Unix platforms.
> (It has been tested only on Solaris so far, so reports about success or
> failure on AIX, HP-UX, or IRIX would be welcome in bug-gnulib.)

Great!  InetUtils only use forkpty, not openpty, but I modified
bootstrap.conf so that it is pulled in now.  I will test it on Mac OS X,
which is the platform we had forkpty-related problems on recently.  Have
you tested it there?  I'm not sure I'm able to test it, though, as it is
only used by rlogind/telnetd, but at least I'll see if it builds or not.

/Simon