Re: Out of ptys??
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
16 Aug 1998 09:13:04 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.6r698h$gdc$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>Followup to: <6r60lr$qd5@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
>By author: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons)
>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>>
>> >The major number from pty's has changed from 4 to 3 & 2 in 2.1.115.
>>
>> I don't know who did this, but, please, change the major numbers
>> back; having to manually redo all the /dev entries for ptys
>> every time you toggle the system between a <2.1.115 and >=2.1.115
>> kernel will get old really fast.
>>
>
>Duh. 2 & 3 has been standard since the late 1.x series; it was just
>that support for the now-ancient ones on major 4 was removed in
>2.1.115.
>
>Get with the program!
I'm a commercial applications developer. For me, `the program'
is `please don't delete the published interfaces unless you
have to.' Converting time_t to 64 bit is a `have to'; pulling
a less than decade-old[1] interface is not.
[1: a human generation is a good minimum life for a published
interface.]
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david parsons \bi/ Yes, I still run 1.2.13 kernels on production
\/ systems.
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