From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263370AbUBKFbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263544AbUBKFbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:31:53 -0500 Received: from thunk.org ([140.239.227.29]:59851 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263370AbUBKFbu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:31:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:31:18 -0500 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Bill Davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Message-ID: <20040211053118.GA2478@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , "H. Peter Anvin" , Bill Davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1ne1M-1Oc-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <4029364F.9030905@tmr.com> <20040210215225.GA1666@thunk.org> <40295509.1050100@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40295509.1050100@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:02:49PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > The way it looks right now it's not going to matter; it appears that > (optionally) continuing to supporting BSD ptys will "fall out naturally" > at least initially. > > Ted, could I ask you to eyeball my patch to see how broken it is? Sure, send me your latest version of the patch and I'll take a look at it. - Ted