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SubjectRe: Insanely high baud rates
On 18.10.11, Alan Cox wrote:
> I mean - what is the baud rate of a pty ?

Solaris made the distinction between B0, which means pty hangup mode,
and any other baud rate:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37851/pty-4d.html

But... why not implement a pty bandwidth limitation layer? You say, I
need to justify it? It's for, uh... protecting the system from unrestricted
pty usage DOS attacks! Yeah. That's what it's for.

Craig Milo Rogers

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