[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Mention COMPAT_BSDPTY.

[christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/52b821cbc222
branches:  trunk
changeset: 571127:52b821cbc222
user:      christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Thu Nov 11 13:38:18 2004 +0000

description:
Mention COMPAT_BSDPTY.

diffstat:

 share/man/man4/options.4 |  15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (29 lines):

diff -r 441c860d3024 -r 52b821cbc222 share/man/man4/options.4
--- a/share/man/man4/options.4  Thu Nov 11 13:20:42 2004 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/options.4  Thu Nov 11 13:38:18 2004 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.252 2004/10/27 00:01:34 dan Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.253 2004/11/11 13:38:18 christos Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996
 .\"    Perry E. Metzger.  All rights reserved.
@@ -340,6 +340,19 @@
 support for some older pre
 .Bx 4.4
 socket calls.
+.It Cd options COMPAT_BSDPTY
+This option is currenty on by default and enables the pty multiplexor
+.Xr ptm 4
+and
+.Xr ptmx 4
+to find and use ptys named 
+.Dq /dev/ptyXX
+(master) and
+.Dq /dev/ttyXX
+(slave).
+Eventually this option will become optional as ptyfs based pseudo-ttys become
+the default, see
+.Xr mount_ptyfs 8 .
 .It Cd options COMPAT_SVR4
 On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
 compatibility with