Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? | Date | 10 Feb 2004 01:33:09 GMT |
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In article <20040209100940.GF21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>, <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> wrote: | On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:59:39AM +0000, 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. | | So what's the problem with calling mount(2)?
Other than making an optional part of the kernel required... Not impossible but something to consider. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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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