From: Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>,
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:51:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040209175119.GC1795@intern.kubla.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402090853020.8894@chaos>
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:00:24AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:17:27AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Does anyone still care about old-style BSD ptys, i.e. /dev/pty*?
>
> Only people who want to log-in from the network..... Of course
> you could force a re-write of all the stuff like telnet, adding
> another layer of bugs that'll take another N years to find and
> remove.
What are you talking about? On my system (Debian Sid) there are no BSD
pty's (i removed the device nodes) and everything works without even a
recompile.
Regards,
Dominik
--
This fortune was brought to you by the people at Hewlett-Packard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-09 7:17 H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 7:21 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-09 7:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 8:12 ` Ricky Beam
2004-02-09 8:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 8:59 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-09 10:09 ` viro
2004-02-09 10:47 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-10 1:33 ` bill davidsen
2004-02-10 2:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 18:06 ` Olaf Hering
2004-02-09 9:29 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-02-09 12:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-09 13:40 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2004-02-09 14:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-09 17:51 ` Dominik Kubla [this message]
2004-02-09 18:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-09 20:59 ` Athanasius
2004-02-10 11:16 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-10 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 0:47 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
2004-02-10 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-10 1:35 ` Karl Tatgenhorst
2004-02-09 13:49 Albert Cahalan
2004-02-09 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 17:18 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-09 20:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-10 11:40 ` Dominik Kubla
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2004-02-09 14:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-09 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-09 16:57 Joerg Pommnitz
2004-02-10 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-02-10 19:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 19:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-10 21:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-02-10 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-11 5:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
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