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| author | Ned T. Crigler <crigler@users.sourceforge.net> | 2016-05-08 17:43:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Ned T. Crigler <crigler@users.sourceforge.net> | 2016-05-08 17:43:28 -0700 |
| commit | 487b802c4a824544393fa04643e742cf3dfadde2 (patch) | |
| tree | ad7004c4dac21ea83ca8cdf0077f3b8167aef7ea /README | |
| parent | 35219aa11c9702c9c527ed14c3c5b69344f56ec6 (diff) | |
Improve error message when dtach can't find a pty.
Also add some documentation mentioning the devices that dtach usually
needs access to on Linux.
Bug reported by David Bremner at https://bugs.debian.org/804944
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ be easily portable to other variants of Unix. It currently assumes that the host system uses POSIX termios, and has a working forkpty function available. +dtach may need access to various devices in the filesystem depending on what +forkpty does. For example, dtach on Linux usually needs access to /dev/ptmx +and /dev/pts. + 2. QUICK START Compiling dtach should be simple, as it uses autoconf: |