From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mail List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 00:19:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40274277.5080808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0402090309000.28488-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net>
Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>Right, this is basically for 2.6/2.7 depending on if there are any
>>stragglers who still use these things...
>
> nettty (whatever you may find it named) uses the BSD pty interface. I don't
> know how much work it would be to get it to use /dev/pts. I've not used it
> for many years, so I cannot say anyone would care if it stopped working.
>
> The code is at least 7 years old (originally written by Livingston.)
>
The porting effort is usually trivial assuming one has access to the source.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 8:19 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 [this message]
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
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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[not found] ` <20040209104729.GA19401@traveler.cistron.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
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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