From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:58:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: pty: disable the use of openpty on FreeMiNT
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efe4b99bd72d4ac9b13b5885c33cc3f8bd6059f9;p=portage.git

pty: disable the use of openpty on FreeMiNT

As reported by Alan Hourihane, openpty seems not to work at all, making
Portage non-usable, so disable it, like we do for Solaris.
---

diff --git a/pym/portage/util/_pty.py b/pym/portage/util/_pty.py
index f45ff0aa1..db1c9acae 100644
--- a/pym/portage/util/_pty.py
+++ b/pym/portage/util/_pty.py
@@ -131,9 +131,12 @@ else:
 	# Disable the use of openpty on Solaris as it seems Python's openpty
 	# implementation doesn't play nice on Solaris with Portage's
 	# behaviour causing hangs/deadlocks.
+	# Similarly, on FreeMiNT, reading just always fails, causing Portage
+	# to think the system is malfunctioning, and returning that as error
+	# message.
 	# Additional note for the future: on Interix, pipes do NOT work, so
 	# _disable_openpty on Interix must *never* be True
-	_disable_openpty = platform.system() in ("SunOS",)
+	_disable_openpty = platform.system() in ("SunOS", "FreeMiNT",)
 _tested_pty = False
 
 if not _can_test_pty_eof():