From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265528AbUBJAw1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:52:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265533AbUBJAw1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:52:27 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:523 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265528AbUBJAwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:52:23 -0500 Message-ID: <40282B32.9010302@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:52:02 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Tatgenhorst CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? References: <40282A37.4090502@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <40282A37.4090502@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Karl Tatgenhorst wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for asking. I had a critical application that depended on > them until last week and am now happy to say that even they have moved > on (I protested the small number of available ptys and explained the > direction that Unix is going with Unix98 style ptys. Now I depend on > those. I would be very interested in seeing what you do with your pty > restructuring as I have a large amount of serial devices. > > Karl Tatgenhorst > LOL :) If the changes I'm working on work out you should be able to have hundreds of thousands of ptys if you have enough memory. -hpa