[BusyBox] Re: any reason why telnetd rejects and vanishes?

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:15 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Vijay Padiyar wrote:

> i'll give this a test shortly but let me emphasize a point one more
> time -- telnetd used to work fine under the same version of busybox on
> the same system.  the only thing that's changed is the kernel -- the
> boot-time scripts are the same, the /dev directory is (apparently) the
> same, and so on.

Wild guess: your old kernel had support for legacy bsd-style pty devices 
compiled in, and the new one only has the unix98 ones.  So if the code tries 
to fall back to BSD style pty, it would work on your old kernel but not on 
your new one?

Rob