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Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
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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.
> 
> 	-hpa