Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Feb 2004 23:29:26 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
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David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:17:27AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>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. > > As long as you make it a 2.7-thing, I don't thing anyone would mind > much... >
Right, this is basically for 2.6/2.7 depending on if there are any stragglers who still use these things...
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