Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:14:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers Message-ID: <19990816091445.F799@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <14546.934712877@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 12:27:57PM %2B0200 References: <199908150954.CAA10006@freefall.freebsd.org> <14546.934712877@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sunday, 15 August 1999 at 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Well, autumn and winter is on us pretty soon. At least on my > lattitude that means hot tea inside warm and cosy houses while the > elements do their best to make life misserable for anything still > left on the outside. > > Here are some tasks which could put an evening or more to > productive and educational use for interested kernel hackers. > > They may also make a nice assignment for CS classes. > > 1. [easy] The SLIP device/interface could use the same > makeover as tun, bpf and pty has received. (see also #5) Care to explain (read: document) the makeover? That would make this and the following tasks even simpler. > 7. [medium] The current naming for ptys doesn't scale that > well. Changing it to ttyp%d / pty%d would probably be a > good idea in the long run, but the ramifications are > relatively widespread (think: "ports") Is there any reason not to have both names, at least for the first 256 devices? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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