On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Michel Donais wrote:
A pts device is also a tty. I have troubles understanding what you want to achieve (and to be frank, none of your mails are explaining), but if the problem is that your application is SCO-centric and cannot work with pts devices, then you'll have to find the source code or ask your vendor.
You've got it; the application is SCO-centric The application need to find a /dev/tty01 or more but can't work with dev/pts/1.
If you run the application as root, you could create a device node that is identical to the real device as /dev/tty01 (since Linux uses /dev/tty1 they will not clash).
This can only work if you understand how the application is constructing /dev/tty01 (I am sure this is not hardcoded, because that would not even work on SCO).
The developper is no more active and I don't have the sources. One of my last resource is to find a way to start a terminal and have Centos allowing me to start the application on a terminal as tty instead of a pseudo-terminal.
Even on SCO the application needs to figure out its own tty. So there should be a way to influence its decision. I don't even understand why it would go with /dev/tty01 over an SSH connection, unless it is hardcoded as a silly fallback default if all other measures have failed.
Finding what these other measures are, may be the source of a solution ?
(Or simply log on to the console instead of using SSH ?)
This haven't been tried, and I will to morrow; but our best will be to use it a text terminal.
You can also tru using 'conspy' to take over the real /dev/tty1 from an SSH or screen session and then start the SCO application. However if the SCO application expects /dev/tty01 then that would fail similarly.
Creating a device node identical to the current tty is probably the best way forward if it really is /dev/tty01. You can do this simply by doing:
cp -aLv /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/tty01
or maybe a symlink would work as well:
cp -av /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/tty01
The advantage if a symlink is simply that you have a visual confirmation to what tty it is linking without having to decipher the major and minor device numbers.
Not sure what your application is doing to, try stracing it to find out.
There is no possibility to trace at start-up.
Man, aren't you glad that your SCO days are (almost?) (finally?) over ? ;-)