Bug 1487 – screen-3.7.6-1 doesn't start

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Bug 1487 - screen-3.7.6-1 doesn't start

Summary:	screen-3.7.6-1 doesn't start

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	screen (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-03-11 18:03 EST by Pekka Pietikäinen
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-03-11 18:48:14 EST
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Description Pekka Pietikäinen 1999-03-11 18:03:34 EST

Screen fails with a
CANNOT I_PUSH ptem /dev/pts/4 Invalid argument

unless the following patch is applied:

--- screen-3.7.6/window.c-pp    Wed Nov 18 22:19:47 1998
+++ screen-3.7.6/window.c       Fri Mar  5 13:03:21 1999
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@
       if (newfd >= 0)
        {
          struct mode fakemode, *modep;
-#if defined(SVR4) && !defined(sgi) && !defined(M_UNIX)
+#if defined(SVR4) && !defined(sgi) && !defined(M_UNIX) &&
!defined(linux)
          if (ioctl(newfd, I_PUSH, "ptem"))
            {
              SendErrorMsg("Cannot I_PUSH ptem %s %s", ttyn,
strerror(errno));

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-11 18:48:59 EST

fixed in screen-3.7.6-2

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