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

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 04:22:24PM -0500, 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.
> 
> 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?!  

Buhahahaha!  (I'm laughing at myself).  Feel free to delete that code, it
will be in CVS.  I had a few of those sprinkled for testing purposes, since
I couldn't use the tracefile before we open it :-(

> 
> Perhaps syslog() would be a better alternative?  I noticed that lp5250d,
> at least, uses syslog... and this works great. 

My apologies.
 
> 
> 

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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