Re: persistent ptys

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 08:20:32 EST


Hi!

> It seems BSD style ptys are on the way out, and most systems will soon
> have just Unix98 style ptys. This makes me want to move something to
> Unix98 ptys, but I'm not sure of the appropriate way. The issue is that
> things like HylaFAX expect to work with well known, persistent, names
> for modem ports. A 100% soft modem in user space can easily provide that
> with BSD ptys. With Unix98 ptys it is not so obvious what to
> do. Most

Do you actually have user-space softmodem implementation? Is it
open-source? I guess it would be very interesting for remaining modem
users :-).
Pavel
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