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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news From: gritton@maine.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.windows.x Subject: xterm on NetBSD gets ioctl error Date: 01 Aug 1996 22:32:35 GMT Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4trbbg$5n5@jan.et.byu.edu> Reply-To: gritton@byu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: maine.et.byu.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4222 comp.windows.x:89976 When I run xterm on NetBSD 1.1, I get the following error: xterm: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device This happens both with XFree86's xterm and one built straight from X11R6.1. Error 23 is shown in xterm's error.h to be: #define ERROR_TIOCSETP 23 /* spawn: ioctl() failed on TIOCSETP */ Is there some pty configuration issue I'm missing, or is this something that has been fixed since 1.1 was released? -- James Gritton - gritton@byu.edu - I disclaim - "