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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 04:42:20 EST


> hardly significant in the namespace pollution sense. Can you imagine
> ttyp1 being a BSD pty and ttyp10 being a completely different kind of
> device?

No but I can imagine

ttyp1

ttypr0
ttypr1

being different devices (and we have upper case examples of that where
single case is running tight now)

Anyway, we don't need over 256 BSD pty devices and the libraries can't do
it so I still believe its a waste of electrons
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