[fpc-devel]ttyname

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Dec 19 12:35:11 CET 2000


> > maybe some UniXies use /de/a/v/fg/56
> > or who knows what ...
> > 
> >    Marco, do you know the rules for FreeBSD for instance ?
> 
> Only /dev/pts/* should be supported as that is the new standard instead of the old
> /dev/ptyp* files

No. It should be default (and fall back), but afaik you can still turn off
/dev/pts (Unix98 TTY support) in the kernel.

This could be the case for bootdisks, firewalls etc, and FPC programs should
run there too!





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