Re: [PATCH] char/tty_io: fix legacy pty name when more than 256 ptydevices are requested

[Alan Cox]

> In the case of the BSD sockets, the patch is not just an userless fix. This is

It's useless.

> interesting when some applications are ported from other Unix'es and still uses BSD
> pty's, since several other Unix flavors were defining a higher namespace size.

They won't work because the glibc pty name handling only does the 256
devices. Given glibc still hasn't picked up tty changes from several
years ago I doubt it'll ever pick up a naming change.

BSD pty is dead. It has all sorts of problems including time taken to
find a new port being dependant on ports currently in use. The amount of
code that cares about it is close to nil, that which cares about it uses
glibc BSD pty helper code so won't work with > 256 anyway.

Alan
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