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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:09:40 +0000
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:59:39AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <c07c67$vrs$1@terminus.zytor.com>,
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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)?