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Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 09 Feb 2004 15:45:06 +0100
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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