From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:23:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4027C22E.2030409@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73u120jor1.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:
>
>>Well, nothing really, but removing BSD style support in the 2.6 series
>>now will break existing installations. Doing it in 2.7 would be fine.
>
> It will still break existing installations even in 2.7. And breaking
> early user space is especially nasty to recover from. Somehow I
> cannot believe keeping them around for compatibility is a unduly
> burden. Please don't remove them.
>
It's quite possible that their existence block sanitizing the pty code,
or more specifically, the pty support in the generic tty code. I'll see
what I can do about it; it's possible it'll just fall out nicely in the
end, but I really have no desire to jump through hoops to preserve what
is a fundamentally broken legancy interface.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 17:24 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-09 14:45 ` Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Andi Kleen
2004-02-09 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
[not found] <1ne1M-1Oc-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-10 19:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 19:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 21:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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