Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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.
> 

The way it looks right now it's not going to matter; it appears that
(optionally) continuing to supporting BSD ptys will "fall out naturally"
at least initially.

Ted, could I ask you to eyeball my patch to see how broken it is?

	-hpa

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