Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[Dominik Kubla]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:00:24AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > 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.

What are you talking about?  On my system (Debian Sid) there are no BSD
pty's (i removed the device nodes) and everything works without even a
recompile.

Regards,
  Dominik
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