[Gambas-user] allocating a pty in gambas

[Laurent Carlier]

Le lundi 9 Août 2004 20:46, Rob a écrit :
> I'm trying to write an application, one of whose features is a
> terminal emulator window in which an ssh session on a remote
> host will be displayed.  But (as with the Console example),
> there is no way to allocate a pty when you shell a process, so
> many programs (like less, emacs, etc.) won't run or run
> incorrectly.
>
> I'm not asking for terminal emulation support.... we have our own
> terminal type here and I'm implementing that myself.  But unix
> programs work differently depending on whether they're run from
> a terminal or not, and whether or not they're running in a pty
> determines that behavior.
>
> Is there some way I can fake this using clever use of the open
> and shell commands, process objects, etc. or am I gonna have to
> write another perl helper app (which would call the Perl builtin
> IO::Pty class)? ;)
>
> Rob
>
>

i've got the same prob while trying to run the su command. with shell or exec 
xommand the same error :

su: must be run from a terminal


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Laurent Carlier