From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date: 09 Feb 2004 15:45:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73u120jor1.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040209104729.GA19401@traveler.cistron.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:
>
> Well, nothing really, but removing BSD style support in the 2.6 series
> now will break existing installations. Doing it in 2.7 would be fine.
It will still break existing installations even in 2.7. And breaking
early user space is especially nasty to recover from. Somehow I
cannot believe keeping them around for compatibility is a unduly
burden. Please don't remove them.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 14:45 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-09 14:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-02-09 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
2004-02-09 16:57 Joerg Pommnitz
2004-02-10 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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
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
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