Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[H. Peter Anvin]

David Weinehall wrote:
> 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...

Right, this is basically for 2.6/2.7 depending on if there are any 
stragglers who still use these things...

	-hpa
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