From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752830Ab2DGV1S (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:27:18 -0400 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:35959 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324Ab2DGV1R (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:27:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:27:05 -0400 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts Message-ID: <20120407212705.GD11295@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Sukadev Bhattiprolu References: <4F80892A.7050104@zytor.com> <20120407202056.472d8ad9@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on test.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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