From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264874AbUBIHVl (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:21:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264936AbUBIHVl (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:21:41 -0500 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:24280 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264874AbUBIHVk (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 02:21:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 08:21:38 +0100 From: David Weinehall To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Message-ID: <20040209072137.GU5776@khan.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pubkey_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:17:27AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. As long as you make it a 2.7-thing, I don't thing anyone would mind much... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/