The first two patches fix Bug#1242. I will close that bug later.

Mon May 17 07:30:48 1999  Norbert Warmuth  <nwarmuth@privat.circular.de>

* configure.in: Added check for getpt ()

* src/subshell.c (pty_open_master): use getpt () if available to open
the master side of the pty. getpt () is a glibc extension and is
needed when glibc 2.1.x is used with a (linux) kernel without unix98
style ptys (if there is no /dev/ptmx getpt falls back to bsd style
ptys).

* src/filegui.c (check_progress_buttons): Don't update the Gpm mouse
cursor when we check for events. It causes a flickering cursor on a
different virtual console.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon May 17 07:30:48 1999  Norbert Warmuth  <nwarmuth@privat.circular.de>
+
+	* configure.in: Added check for getpt ()
+
 1999-05-05  Federico Mena Quintero  <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx>
 
 	* configure.in (VERSION): Bumped version number to 4.5.31.

configure.in

@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(memset memcpy tcsetattr tcgetattr cfgetospeed)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sigaction sigemptyset sigprocmask sigaddset)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sysconf setuid setreuid)
 
+dnl
+dnl getpt is a GNU Extension (glibc 2.1.x)
+dnl
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getpt)
+
 SHADOWLIB=
 if test x$system = xLinux; then
 AC_CHECK_LIB(shadow,pw_encrypt,[

src/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+Mon May 17 07:37:12 1999  Norbert Warmuth  <nwarmuth@privat.circular.de>
+
+	* subshell.c (pty_open_master): use getpt () if available to open
+	the master side of the pty. getpt () is a glibc extension and is 
+	needed when glibc 2.1.x is used with a (linux) kernel without unix98
+	style ptys (if there is no /dev/ptmx getpt falls back to bsd style 
+	ptys).
+
+	* filegui.c (check_progress_buttons): Don't update the Gpm mouse 
+	cursor when we check for events. It causes a flickering cursor on a 
+	different virtual console.
+
 1999-05-12  Pavel Machek  <pavel@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
 
 	* cons.saver.c (main): change cons.saver so it can be run without

src/filegui.c

@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ check_progress_buttons (FileOpContext *ctx)
     ui = ctx->ui;
 
     x_flush_events ();
+    event.x = -1;         /* Don't show the GPM cursor */
     c = get_event (&event, 0, 0);
     if (c == EV_NONE)
       return FILE_CONT;

src/subshell.c

@@ -1094,8 +1094,15 @@ static int pty_open_master (char *pty_name)
     char *slave_name;
     int pty_master;
 
+
+#ifdef HAVE_GETPT
+    /* getpt () is a GNU extension (glibc 2.1.x) */
+    pty_master = getpt ();
+#else
     strcpy (pty_name, "/dev/ptmx");
-    if ((pty_master = open (pty_name, O_RDWR)) == -1
+    pty_master = open (pty_name, O_RDWR)
+#endif 
+    if (pty_master == -1
 	|| grantpt (pty_master) == -1		  /* Grant access to slave */
 	|| unlockpt (pty_master) == -1		  /* Clear slave's lock flag */
 	|| !(slave_name = ptsname (pty_master)))  /* Get slave's name */