Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:28:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/958 Message-ID: <199610230728.JAA23971@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <10915.846027987@orion.webspan.net> from Gary Palmer at "Oct 22, 96 07:46:27 pm"
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As Gary Palmer wrote: > Actually, that is a bit short-sighted in a way, considering that > MAKEDEV will be going away when devfs is rolled out. We need some way > to handle x number of ptys transparently. /dev/pts/<x>? (And only mention /dev/pts in the ttys file.) I think it would be time to implement the `master pty' scenario some day, it's somewhat evil that every program that wants a pty has to loop around, construct a new name, and try if it could open the next pty. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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