Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:10:26 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for PTY/devfs changes Message-ID: <11097.1168121426@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:36:51 %2B0100." <20070106213651.GD46094@hoeg.nl>
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In message <20070106213651.GD46094@hoeg.nl>, Ed Schouten writes: >> But only calling the handler on CREATE will not work, because plenty >> of programs will stat(2) first and find nothing there and complain >> to the user. > >Is it really needed that we keep such compatibility? Shouldn't those >applications use grantpt(3) or pty(3) functions anyway? Not only PTY uses cloning. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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