[Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV broken after VSI update

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 12:00:05 PM UTC+13, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> In my case Kermit from a Linux system tunneled over SSH stopped working. 

What sort of errors was it reporting?

> I had to exclude the account that was doing that from the check, which 
> is a pretty desperate hack. If there's a better way to identify 
> sessions that are using FTDRIVER and have a TT device with a device 
> class of 66 but are not actual interactive terminal sessions using SSH, 
> I'd be happy to hear what it is.

What is the need for FTDRIVER, exactly? Isn’t there some standard pseudo-terminal facility equivalent to pty(7) <https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/manpages/pty.7.en.html>? On Linux, SSH service is implemented entirely in userland.