From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:52:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040210215225.GA1666@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4029364F.9030905@tmr.com>
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:51:43PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Sorry, last reply "just went" for some reason... ijn any case I hope the
> number and tone of replies has shown that a number of people DO care,
> and that "you can just program around it with your effort instead of
> mine" isn't going to be popular.
>
> In other words, this sounds more like 2.7 material where people expect
> things to change than something which should just suddenly break in 2.6.
> Violation of Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment and all that.
I think the discussion has always been that this would be a 2.7 item.
However, it might be useful to make 2.6 start issueing printk's *now*
when a program uses a BSD pty, so that application programs have
plenty of notice that they will be going away.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-10 21:53 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-10 19:47 ` Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 19:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 21:52 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2004-02-10 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-11 5:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-02-09 16:57 Joerg Pommnitz
2004-02-10 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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[not found] ` <20040209104729.GA19401@traveler.cistron.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-02-09 14:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-09 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-02-09 13:49 Albert Cahalan
2004-02-09 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 17:18 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-09 20:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-10 11:40 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-09 7:17 H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 7:21 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-09 7:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 8:12 ` Ricky Beam
2004-02-09 8:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 8:59 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-09 10:09 ` viro
2004-02-09 10:47 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-10 1:33 ` bill davidsen
2004-02-10 2:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 18:06 ` Olaf Hering
2004-02-09 9:29 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-02-09 12:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-09 13:40 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-02-09 14:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-09 17:51 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-09 18:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-09 20:59 ` Athanasius
2004-02-10 11:16 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-10 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 0:47 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
2004-02-10 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 1:35 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
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