Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:02:49 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
Theodore Ts'o wrote: > 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. >
The way it looks right now it's not going to matter; it appears that (optionally) continuing to supporting BSD ptys will "fall out naturally" at least initially.
Ted, could I ask you to eyeball my patch to see how broken it is?
-hpa
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