From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266187AbUBJTsJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:48:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266207AbUBJTsJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:48:09 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:10757 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266187AbUBJTr4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:47:56 -0500 Message-ID: <4029364F.9030905@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:51:43 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? References: <1ne1M-1Oc-1@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <1ne1M-1Oc-1@gated-at.bofh.it> 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 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. Sorry, last reply "just went" for some reason... ijn any case I hope the number and tone of replies has shown that a number of people DO care, and that "you can just program around it with your effort instead of mine" isn't going to be popular. In other words, this sounds more like 2.7 material where people expect things to change than something which should just suddenly break in 2.6. Violation of Plauger's Law of Least Astonishment and all that. -- I doubt like hell this mailer has a sig...