Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:51:43PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.

I think the discussion has always been that this would be a 2.7 item.  

However, it might be useful to make 2.6 start issueing printk's *now*
when a program uses a BSD pty, so that application programs have
plenty of notice that they will be going away.

						- Ted
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