Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> It will still break existing installations even in 2.7.  And breaking
> early user space is especially nasty to recover from.  Somehow I
> cannot believe keeping them around for compatibility is a unduly
> burden. Please don't remove them.

It's quite possible that their existence block sanitizing the pty code, 
or more specifically, the pty support in the generic tty code.  I'll see 
what I can do about it; it's possible it'll just fall out nicely in the 
end, but I really have no desire to jump through hoops to preserve what 
is a fundamentally broken legancy interface.

	-hpa
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