Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:08:56 -0500 (EST) | From | "C. Scott Ananian" <> | Subject | ptsname() support (new ptys) |
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I have started the implementation of Unix98-style ptys for Linux. It's not terribly difficult; just another ioctl for ptsname, and /dev/ptmx is handled the same way /dev/tty and /dev/tty0 are (ie, device number rewrite on open).
Here are my questions: 1) Who do I talk to write the ptsname function is glibc? [kernel support is only half the implementation.] I don't know who the glibc development team is, or where they hang out. =) 2) Where should the device number for /dev/ptmx go? I'd like to keep it with the other tty stuff, so I'm leaning towards an allocation in character device major 5... 3) Lastly -- has this already been done? Should I bother?
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