Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

Sorry, last reply "just went" for some reason... ijn any case I hope the 
number and tone of replies has shown that a number of people DO care, 
and that "you can just program around it with your effort instead of 
mine" isn't going to be popular.

In other words, this sounds more like 2.7 material where people expect 
things to change than something which should just suddenly break in 2.6. 
Violation of Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment and all that.

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