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Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?

From:  hpa-AT-zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To:  linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org
Subject:  Does anyone still care about BSD ptys?
Date:  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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