Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

From: David Weinehall
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 02:22:50 EST


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...


Regards: David Weinehall
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