From: Reto Schuettel <reto-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-04-11T14:13:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange problem with PTY.spawn()

Hi Bruce

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:12:54AM +0900, Bruce Woodward wrote:
> Reto,
> 
> Looking at ruby-1.8.4/ext/pty/pty.c, line 351. To get the runtime error
> "can't get Master/Slave device" the opening on /dev/ptmx is failing.
> Do you have the file /dev/ptmx?
> On a Solaris 8 system here I have;

Nono.. the open was fine (look at the truss output, it returns 3). All the
commands in this big if-block have to be successfull, otherwise the
error message will be shown.

> # ls -l /dev/ptmx
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          30 Apr 16  2005 /dev/ptmx -> > ../devices/pseudo/clone@0:ptmx
> # ls -lL /dev/ptmx > crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       11, 23 Feb 19  2002 /dev/ptmx
> 

Same here ... 

> 
> good luck.

luck... I hope this problem doesn't depend on my luck :) .. but thanks anyway.


Cheers,
Reto Sch�ttel