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DateMon, 09 Feb 2004 00:19:03 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
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.

	-hpa
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