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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)? - 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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