Subject: Re: screen in dist
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/16/2004 16:52:26
[ On Friday, January 16, 2004 at 11:44:20 (-0800), Greywolf wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: screen in dist
>
> ...couldn't systrace alleviate this?

Maybe, but that would be a poor and unmaintainable hack, especially from
an operational perspective.

> There's been a bit of comment on this topic, actually, by the JOVE crew.

Yes -- I instigated some of it.  :-)

> Is there a way we could do ptmx + /dev/pty.. via something akin to
> grantpt() without degenerating into /dev/pts/* notation?

It's not a good idea to confuse such notation or implementation details
with a functional design.

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