Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:06:51 +0100 | | From | Olaf Hering <> | | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
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On Mon, Feb 09, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <c07c67$vrs$1@terminus.zytor.com>, > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >Does anyone still care about old-style BSD ptys, i.e. /dev/pty*? I'm > >thinking of restructuring the pty system slightly to make it more > >dynamic and to make use of the new larger dev_t, and I'd like to get > >rid of the BSD ptys as part of the same patch. > > bootlogd(8) which is used by Debian and Suse is started as the > first thing at boottime. It needs a pty, and tries to use /dev/pts > if it's there but falls back to BSD style pty's if /dev/pts isn't > mounted - which will be the case 99% of the time.
mounting proc and dev/pts is the first thing our boot script does, since a very long time. So it will not break anything.
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