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Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts
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On 04/11/2012 07:27 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> Yeah, and? The dev_t still works from the static /dev/ like it didi 10
> years ago. All good.
> 

That *is* the legacy mode which we'd like to get rid of.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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