From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very preliminary dynamic pty patch
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:52:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40294472.3010203@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1nKY0-8jZ-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.)
Thank you, this keeps everyone happy I would think.
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2004-02-10 20:52 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-02-10 17:25 Very preliminary dynamic pty patch H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 18:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-10 18:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
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