Re: xterm operation not permitted
Re: xterm operation not permitted
- Subject: Re: xterm operation not permitted
- From: Thomas Dickey via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 20:37:15 -0500
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:37:34AM -0500, Jonathan Prescott wrote:
> Well, let’s just say that, on MacOS Catalina 10.15.3, the xterm I had
> installed, the latest at the time from MacPorts, failed in the way everyone
> has been noting lately. I did my periodic update of MacPorts, and I noticed
> that xterm was updated this cycle. After the MacPorts update, xterm worked
> like everyone is expecting. Now, whether it was xterm that was fixed, or an
> X11 related library (that’s all I use MacPorts for), I couldn’t tell you.
> However, it was not a change in the operating system, or XQuartz (not X11
> server), since these didn’t change.
I don't know - since nothing relevant changed in xterm (it's been almost
all font-related/display-related things in the past year).
A few years ago someone had a problem with those symptoms which was
apparently due to MacOS/OSX associating permissions to the _pseudo terminal_.
In a quick check, it seems I last revised that in 2011.
I upgraded one of my machines to Catalina in October to investigate this
(there are a couple of pty-interfaces which _could_ be used, and possibly
Apple's broken a different one in Catalina), but found no corresponding
problem (but that one started as Mohave - upgrades from older releases,
I think, accumulate crud that Apple doesn't cleanup).
If the problem is related to file-permissions (and acls), I suppose
it's also possible that an unrelated upgrade will replace some
file and suddenly relieve some bug. But I don't know to advise you
on that -- only on things that I can reproduce :-)
> Jonathan
>
> > On Feb 6, 2020, at 3:54 AM, Thomas Dickey <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > | From: "Apple X11 Users' List" <email@hidden>
> > | To: "David Ledger" <email@hidden>
> > | Cc: "Apple X11 Users' List" <email@hidden>
> > | Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:35:37 PM
> > | Subject: Re: xterm operation not permitted
> >
> > | I just updated my MacPorts distribution, and the new xterm seems to have
> > been
> > | fixed so that it works on Catalina as you would expect.
> > | Jonathan
> >
> > that's not due to a change in xterm, but some permissions bug in the
> > pseudo-terminal support.
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Thomas E. Dickey <email@hidden>
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