Re: [PATCH] char/tty_io: fix legacy pty name when more than 256 ptydevices are requested

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/10/2009 07:07 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> This is a real step back.
> 
> It now wastes all the tty[e-p]%d namespace. ttyp%d for > 255 at least
> only uses one for this irrelevant area.
> 

Honestly, I *really* don't think the [pt]ty[p-za-e]* namespace should be
used for another purpose, at least until BSD ptys are killed dead, so in
that sense expanding tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f] to tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]+ is
hardly significant in the namespace pollution sense.  Can you imagine
ttyp1 being a BSD pty and ttyp10 being a completely different kind of
device?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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