Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:30:14 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts |
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:55:41PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/11/2012 04:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > That all seems pretty simple. > > > >> - get rid of the (rather broken) idea of 'legacy' vs 'non-legacy mode' > >> mount options in the default setup; I don't think userspace should > >> ever be required to fiddle with such stuff > > > > Hm, but if we get rid of them, what about tools that expect them to be > > there? Just silently ignore them? > > > > Drop the newinstance mount option on the floor; keep recognizing the > ptmxmode mount option but change the default.
Wait, change the default to what?
I think this is going to require a lot of testing :)
greg k-h
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