The attached hack fixes a problem which occurs since
switching the pty code.  isatty() hangs if the slave_fd
is closed and reopened as in the deprecated APIs
pty.master_open() and pty.slave_open().

This patch reverts to the old behaviour where
_open_terminal() is called in master_open() to avoid
the hang later.

Here's a very simple test for the problem:

import pty, os

master_fd, slave_name = pty.master_open()
slave_fd = pty.slave_open(slave_name)
print os.isatty(slave_fd)

In slave_open() the first ioctl raises an IOError,
Invalid Argument 22.

I don't know if this problem affects hpux10.  Hopefully
someone will have a better idea how to really fix this
problem.

Logged In: YES 
user_id=33168

I have attached an updated patch.  It seems Solaris 8 (on
the snake farm) also had a test failure.  I have basically
restored the old functionality in this patch. 
_open_terminal is called if /dev/ptmx exists, so
os.openpty() is not called.  This fixes the test
failures/hangs on both solaris and hpux and should be
equivalent to the 2.2 behaviour.

Logged In: YES 
user_id=21627

I can't reproduce a test failure for Solaris 8 (on the SF
compile farm) for Python 2.3a2. Can you please try that
specific release and report what test fails for you, in
which way?

I'm concerned that the patch isn't that good, e.g. on Linux,
it would cause usage of the old-style interface to
pseudo-terminals, even though an all-singing all-dancing
Unix98 pty support is available in the C library.

Logged In: YES 
user_id=33168

I don't understand what you are asking for.  By 'specific
release', do you mean of Solaris/HP-UX?  I believe on
Solaris there's an exception, but on HP-UX it hangs.  But I
don't recall exactly.  I agree this patch is not optimal.  I
can also try on our Solaris box here.

Logged In: YES 
user_id=21627

By 'specific release', I mean Python 2.3a2, with no patches.
I can't reproduce an exception on that Python release, for
Solaris 8.

Logged In: YES 
user_id=33168

I don't seem to have this problem any more on either HP-UX
or Solaris.