Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:52:25 -0500 | | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:51:43PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Sorry, last reply "just went" for some reason... ijn any case I hope the > number and tone of replies has shown that a number of people DO care, > and that "you can just program around it with your effort instead of > mine" isn't going to be popular. > > In other words, this sounds more like 2.7 material where people expect > things to change than something which should just suddenly break in 2.6. > Violation of Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment and all that.
I think the discussion has always been that this would be a 2.7 item.
However, it might be useful to make 2.6 start issueing printk's *now* when a program uses a BSD pty, so that application programs have plenty of notice that they will be going away.
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