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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. Mike. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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