Re: FILE *log = fopen("/dev/tty1");

[james rich <james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Scott Klement wrote:
> In the current CVS sources, in tn5250.c, there is a section that looks
> like this:
> 
>    }
>       FILE *log = fopen("/dev/tty1","w");
>         fprintf (log, "host = '%s'\r\n", tn5250_config_get (config, "host"));
>         fclose (log);
> 
>    }
> 
> 
> This does not work on FreeBSD.  It creates a segmentation fault, because
> the fopen() will invariably fail.  The tty's in FreeBSD are named slightly
> differently than this.

The same is probably true on IRIX so I vote that we figure out some 
cross-platform way of doing it.  I haven't had a chance to test yet so I'm 
not sure that it fails.

> I'm wondering if this type of code is really desirable?!   I realize that
> this is supposed to be a "Linux" emulator, and I'm the odd man out when it
> comes to my preference of an OS...  but do you really want to hardcore the
> device names in the source?!  

Is this a 'Linux' emulator?  I thought it was for all unix-based machines.
There was even a windows version for a while.

James Rich
james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu

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