atty on Sun 3

[roy at sts.sts.UUCP]

/* Written 10:58 am  Jun  1, 1989 by schmidt at uci-ics.UUCP in sts:comp.sources.bugs */
In article <280 at kurz-ai.UUCP> simcha at kurz-ai.UUCP (Simcha Lerner) writes:
++ 
++ Has anyone had any luck getting atty running under Sun OS 4.0
++ on a Sun 3?
++ 
++ I get an Abort with "set pty modes: Inappropriate ioctl for device"
++ whenever I try to start atty up.

Did you happen to compile with GCC by any chance?  If so, did you remember
to supply the -traditional option?  If you didn't, this is what you're
probably going to get.  Use -traditional, and the problem should go away...

Doug
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I had the same problem with a Sun3 running SunOS 4.  Here is the exact
error message ...

set pty modes: Inappropriate ioctl for device
IOT trap (core dumped)

I compiled this with gcc -O -traditional -c ...  The results were the
same with the Sun C compiler too.  The -O might have done it, but it
doesn't sound like it from the error message.

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