Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:02:33 -0700 |
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The problem is that the lack of migration at the root causes real problems for the people who need the extra funkiness, and unlike BSD ttys it's not an application-level change at all.
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:36:26 -0700 >"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> Currently, devpts supports a legacy mode where only one instance >exists. >> For backwards compatibility, this is also the default mode, but the >> right thing should be to migrate everyone over to the "newinstance" >scheme. >> >> However, it is increasingly clear that that is not happening; neither >> the distros nor udev support this by default at this point. > >Well maybe thats because the legacy mode works perfectly well for most >purposes and does what they want. The "non-legacy" mode is really not >"non-legacy" its "special case extra funkiness". > >With my tty hat on I'd prefer to keep it indefinitely if need be. It's >hardly a maintainability issue or a hot problem. We've got much bigger >turds to juggle than that. > >I don't see why we need an agendum to force the users into making >changes >that really don't matter. I mean we still support BSD ptys 8) > >Alan
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