From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265433AbUBJBdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:33:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265476AbUBJBdt (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:33:49 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:59149 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265433AbUBJBds (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:33:48 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Date: 10 Feb 2004 01:33:09 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20040209100940.GF21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1076376789 27285 192.168.12.62 (10 Feb 2004 01:33:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20040209100940.GF21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>, wrote: | On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:59:39AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: | > In article , | > H. Peter Anvin wrote: | > >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. | > | > bootlogd(8) which is used by Debian and Suse is started as the | > first thing at boottime. It needs a pty, and tries to use /dev/pts | > if it's there but falls back to BSD style pty's if /dev/pts isn't | > mounted - which will be the case 99% of the time. | | So what's the problem with calling mount(2)? Other than making an optional part of the kernel required... Not impossible but something to consider. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.