Problems while using divecomputer-simulator for linux

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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> Should libdivecomputer ignore the error when on a PTY?

Yeah, I don't see any better approach.

In fact, I'd suggest that libdivecomputer get rid of all those checks
entirely, and get rid of the whole "ENABLE_PTY" thing. Maybe the
errors can be logged to the log-file, but they should be considered at
most warnings, not errors.

Some settings just don't make sense for all serial lines. Maybe they
are pty's. Maybe there is some glibc idiocy. Maybe they are some
emulated other thing that doesn't do a complete job, but works well
enough otherwise. Who cares? Making the errors fatal just make things
*worse*.

And hiding them under ENABLE_PTY doesn't really help anything, just
adds configuration complexity and makes the code uglier.

                 Linus