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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:27:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120407212705.GD11295@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da8cd76d-6116-44a9-a7b3-7a501cb3a8a9@email.android.com>

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:02:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The problem is that the lack of migration at the root causes real
> problems for the people who need the extra funkiness, and unlike BSD
> ttys it's not an application-level change at all.

Could you explain what the issues are?  I haven't been following
devpts all that carefully.

Thanks,

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-07 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-07 18:36 RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-07 19:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-07 20:02   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-07 21:27     ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-04-07 22:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08  7:30         ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-08 18:00           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 19:16             ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-11 23:53               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-11 23:55                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12  0:30                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-12  0:38                     ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-12  1:14                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-12  1:08               ` Al Viro
2012-04-12  1:56                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12  2:26                   ` Al Viro
2012-04-12  2:48                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12  3:04                       ` Al Viro
2012-04-12  3:07                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12  2:27                 ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-12  2:45                   ` Al Viro
2012-04-12  2:48                     ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-12  2:53                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-12  3:02                     ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-08 17:20         ` Alan Cox
2012-04-07 20:04   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 18:15 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-08 22:18   ` Alan Cox
2012-04-08 22:26     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-08 22:46       ` Alan Cox
2012-04-08 22:45         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-09  3:15           ` Theodore Tso
2012-04-09 12:43             ` Kay Sievers
2012-04-09 13:37               ` Al Viro

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