Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts

From: Ted Ts'o
Date: Sat Apr 07 2012 - 17:27:50 EST


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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