Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[Richard B. Johnson]

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:17:27AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Does anyone still care about old-style BSD ptys, i.e. /dev/pty*?

Only people who want to log-in from the network..... Of course
you could force a re-write of all the stuff like telnet, adding
another layer of bugs that'll take another N years to find and
remove.

I think you really need to leave the "legacy" stuff alone. Somebody
installs a new kernel and then can't log in from the Network. Not
good at all.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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