Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
[Posted February 10, 2004 by corbet]
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| hpa-AT-zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) |
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| Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? |
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| Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:17:27 +0000 (UTC) |
Hi all,
Does anyone still care about old-style BSD ptys, i.e. /dev/pty*? I'm
thinking of restructuring the pty system slightly to make it more
dynamic and to make use of the new larger dev_t, and I'd like to get
rid of the BSD ptys as part of the same patch.
-hpa
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