luit package and pty

[Andy Koppe]

2009/7/28 neomjp:
> The recent xterm is configured with --enable-luit, but /usr/bin/luit is
> currently broken.
>
> $ cygcheck -f `which luit`
> luit-1.0.3-1
>
> $ luit
> Couldn't allocate pty: No such file or directory
>
> The cause of this error and a possible fix is in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00725.html
>
> Could you please consider incorporating this fix into the luit package?

Just stumbled across this issue. A fix would be particularly useful
for Cygwin 1.7, where the UTF-8 will be the default while a number of
apps are not yet Unicode-ready. Hence luit is needed as a
compatibility shim.

Andy

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