Re: glibc 2.1

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro ds2 pg gda pl>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, B. James Phillippe wrote:

> >  I am using 103 currently.  Apart from `reboot' not working anymore (I
> 
> Hi Maciej.  Are you using UNIX98 pty's on your system?  I tried them with
> 2.0.102 and only my ssh binary used them; telnet et all did not (and my

 Strange -- I couldn't get 2.0.102 to compile -- there were some Makefile
problems which I didn't resolve before 2.0.103 was released.

> w, who, users, finger, etc. all failed, too).  If you have them working
> with all of these things, I'd love some pointers.

 Yes, I am using devpts and ptys work correctly when created by sshd.  I
do not use any other programs that would create ptys so I do not know
whether they work or not.  There are some problems with w, finger and wtmp
maintenance but I suppose they may be due to some programs I didn't still
bother to recompile against current glibc.

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