From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262827AbUBIH3l (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:29:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263185AbUBIH3l (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:29:41 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:61580 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262827AbUBIH3j (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:29:39 -0500 Message-ID: <402736D6.4000502@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 23:29:26 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040105 X-Accept-Language: en, sv, es, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Weinehall CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? References: <20040209072137.GU5776@khan.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <20040209072137.GU5776@khan.acc.umu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:17:27AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>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. > > As long as you make it a 2.7-thing, I don't thing anyone would mind > much... > Right, this is basically for 2.6/2.7 depending on if there are any stragglers who still use these things... -hpa