From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Oct 23 00:51:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03907 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA03879; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA21034; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:51:27 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA16075; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:51:26 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id JAA23971; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:28:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610230728.JAA23971@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/958 To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:28:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <10915.846027987@orion.webspan.net> from Gary Palmer at "Oct 22, 96 07:46:27 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/? (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. ;-)