xdbx on an Iris

[Andrew Cherenson]

In article <2696 at uc.msc.umn.edu> wes at msc.edu writes:
>Earlier I posted an "xdbx" question about alloca/xmalloc on the Iris.  Thanks
>to those who have pointed me to the "emacs" code.  Now that xdbx builds
>properly on the Iris, it won't run because it cannot open any "ptys".  For
>communication purposes, xdbx opens a tty/pty pair.  However, because ptys
>are a BSD thing (I think) they are not available in the strict SYS5
>implementation of unix on the Iris.  Am I out of luck or is there a work-around
>for this as well?

IRIX has pseudo-ttys. Refer to pty(7M) for details.