From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754241Ab2DGUDi (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2012 16:03:38 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53394 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752472Ab2DGUDh (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2012 16:03:37 -0400 References: <4F80892A.7050104@zytor.com> <20120407202056.472d8ad9@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <20120407202056.472d8ad9@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:02:33 -0700 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Sukadev Bhattiprolu Message-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The problem is that the lack of migration at the root causes real problems for the people who need the extra funkiness, and unlike BSD ttys it's not an application-level change at all. Alan Cox wrote: >On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:36:26 -0700 >"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > >> Currently, devpts supports a legacy mode where only one instance >exists. >> For backwards compatibility, this is also the default mode, but the >> right thing should be to migrate everyone over to the "newinstance" >scheme. >> >> However, it is increasingly clear that that is not happening; neither >> the distros nor udev support this by default at this point. > >Well maybe thats because the legacy mode works perfectly well for most >purposes and does what they want. The "non-legacy" mode is really not >"non-legacy" its "special case extra funkiness". > >With my tty hat on I'd prefer to keep it indefinitely if need be. It's >hardly a maintainability issue or a hot problem. We've got much bigger >turds to juggle than that. > >I don't see why we need an agendum to force the users into making >changes >that really don't matter. I mean we still support BSD ptys 8) > >Alan -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.