From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264927AbUBIHR4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:17:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264933AbUBIHR4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:17:56 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:29162 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264927AbUBIHRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:17:55 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1076311047 32637 63.209.29.3 (9 Feb 2004 07:17:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:17:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@zytor.com Key fingerprint: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh Just Say No to Morden * The Shadows were defeated -- Babylon 5 is renewed!!