Dermot Paikkos wrote: > The crux of my problem is the database frontend has a table of > terminal definitions which I have defined as /dev/pts/0....50. Now > from what you have said (and I have seen it in action now) the only > way to create files in /dev/pts/ is to ssh into the system. However > the database frontend is a java-terminal that operates out of a > browser window. I don't think it knows how to open a pty. > > I have tried to use mknod to create devices and I get operation not > permitted. So I am a bit stuck at the moment. You cannot create additional Unix98 ptys manually. Every time you open /dev/ptmx, a new slave is created automatically in /dev/pts/. You may be able to use BSD ptys (/dev/pty[p-za-e][0-9a-f] and /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]), which are created statically. However, the application will need to be designed to use BSD ptys and not Unix98 ptys. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
