Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

On 2004.02.09 11:09, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:59:39AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > In article <c07c67$vrs$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >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.
> > 
> > bootlogd(8) which is used by Debian and Suse is started as the
> > first thing at boottime. It needs a pty, and tries to use /dev/pts
> > if it's there but falls back to BSD style pty's if /dev/pts isn't
> > mounted - which will be the case 99% of the time.
> 
> So what's the problem with calling mount(2)?

Well, nothing really, but removing BSD style support in the 2.6 series
now will break existing installations. Doing it in 2.7 would be fine.

Mike.
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