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Re: Enhance ptyfs to handle multiple instances.
On 14.03.2014 18:40, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20140314143532.GA17867%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:51:12AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>> I don't think that putting ptmx inside devpts makes sense. OTOH, we
>>> could have multiple ptmx devices with different minor numbers and use that
>>> as the differentiating factor for the pty devices. I think that's too
>>> complex
>>> and probably not worth it (at least in the first pass).
>>
>> Actually, it would simplify things a lot if /dev/ptmx was a symlink to
>> /dev/pts/ptmx. The ptyfs instance could assign a unique minor number per
>> instance and use that to associate the instance with the correct mount
>> point.
>
> Yes, except that ptmx is supposed to work without ptyfs, but I guess that
> nobody uses it this way anymore.
I use, for experience :)
>
> christos
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