On OSF/1, I'm seeing this test failure in an *interactive* "make check" of a ptsname_r testdir:
test-ptsname_r.c:193: assertion failed FAIL: test-ptsname_r It turns out the cause is a bug in gnulib's ttyname_r: It fails to add a trailing NUL byte to the output string. This fixes it. 2012-06-24 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> ttyname_r: Fix result on OSF/1, Solaris. * lib/ttyname_r.c (ttyname_r): Produce a NUL-terminated result. --- lib/ttyname_r.c.orig Sun Jun 24 22:37:31 2012 +++ lib/ttyname_r.c Sun Jun 24 22:33:15 2012 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ return err; if (buflen < sizeof (largerbuf)) { - size_t namelen = strlen (largerbuf); + size_t namelen = strlen (largerbuf) + 1; if (namelen > buflen) return ERANGE; memcpy (buf, largerbuf, namelen);