Re: Out of ptys??

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:42:41 +0200 (MET DST)


"A month of sundays ago david parsons wrote:"
>
> >Get with the program!
>
> I'm a commercial applications developer. For me, `the program'
> is `please don't delete the published interfaces unless you
> have to.' Converting time_t to 64 bit is a `have to'; pulling
> a less than decade-old[1] interface is not.
>
> [1: a human generation is a good minimum life for a published
> interface.]

Amen. Please take note: change nothing unless you are forced to.
That's the main argument against devfs (which I have nothing against as
an innovation, and everything against as am inevitable source of
pointless misery for application maintainers when what we have _works_.
Ditto non-exec stack.).

> david parsons \bi/ Yes, I still run 1.2.13 kernels on production
> \/ systems.

Well, I run them on laptops, but I sure can log into a couple of "real"
servers right now happily running 1.2.13.

Connected to [xyz.uvw.abc.ac.uk]
Escape character is '^]'.
Linux 1.2.13.
erasmus:~> uptime
6:06pm up 65 days, 5:20, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

I set that one up about three years ago. It seems to be happy.

Peter

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