linux-kernel - Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts

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Date:	Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:27:05 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:02:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The problem is that the lack of migration at the root causes real
> problems for the people who need the extra funkiness, and unlike BSD
> ttys it's not an application-level change at all.

Could you explain what the issues are?  I haven't been following
devpts all that carefully.

Thanks,

						- Ted
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