Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/11/2012 04:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> That all seems pretty simple.
> 
>>   - get rid of the (rather broken) idea of 'legacy' vs 'non-legacy mode'
>>     mount options in the default setup; I don't think userspace should
>>     ever be required to fiddle with such stuff
> 
> Hm, but if we get rid of them, what about tools that expect them to be
> there?  Just silently ignore them?
> 

Drop the newinstance mount option on the floor; keep recognizing the
ptmxmode mount option but change the default.

	-hpa

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