Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:19:03 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
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Ricky Beam wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Right, this is basically for 2.6/2.7 depending on if there are any >>stragglers who still use these things... > > nettty (whatever you may find it named) uses the BSD pty interface. I don't > know how much work it would be to get it to use /dev/pts. I've not used it > for many years, so I cannot say anyone would care if it stopped working. > > The code is at least 7 years old (originally written by Livingston.) >
The porting effort is usually trivial assuming one has access to the source.
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