[fpc-devel]ttyname

Peter Vreman peter at freepascal.org
Tue Dec 19 12:54:07 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!

Sorry, i was unclear, only /dev/pts/* should be added as first try. The others should stay
as they are.







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