From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265310AbUBISG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:06:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265298AbUBISG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:06:56 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:1176 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265332AbUBISGx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:06:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:06:51 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Message-ID: <20040209180651.GA15842@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 09, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article , > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >Does anyone still care about old-style BSD ptys, i.e. /dev/pty*? I'm > >thinking of restructuring the pty system slightly to make it more > >dynamic and to make use of the new larger dev_t, and I'd like to get > >rid of the BSD ptys as part of the same patch. > > bootlogd(8) which is used by Debian and Suse is started as the > first thing at boottime. It needs a pty, and tries to use /dev/pts > if it's there but falls back to BSD style pty's if /dev/pts isn't > mounted - which will be the case 99% of the time. mounting proc and dev/pts is the first thing our boot script does, since a very long time. So it will not break anything. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG