From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266199AbUBJS0x (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:26:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266164AbUBJS0Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:26:24 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:55222 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266090AbUBJSZl (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:25:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4029221C.7060805@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:25:32 -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: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Very preliminary dynamic pty patch References: <200402101803.i1AI3imE010142@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200402101803.i1AI3imE010142@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> 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 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:25:36 GMT, hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) said: > >>Try it out and send me the oopsen :) >> >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/dynpty-test-1.patch > > Eyeball checked only, 2 comments: > > 1) Will the embedded crew object to the removal of CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS? > I can see some systems that don't want either SysV or BSD pty's, unless > they're deeply ingrained in some way I don't understand so you can't have > a system with exactly one tty on a DB-9 serial port for a console without > having them present too. > > 2) How much extra code to axe the BSD-style PTYs? Actually it looks like it wouldn't be too much code either way. I'll probably make them both config options (with removal of the entire pty subsystem if one chooses no on both.) -hpa