Re: 2.6-test4 Traditional pty and devfs

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:52:47PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The problem may be more serious. There are lots of
> apps that use the old-style PTYs w/o any libc help.

That's not a problem, just bad design.  It continues to work as always,
i.e. you don't get an automic chown.  For that you either needs the
libc interface with the pt_chown helper of UNIX98 ptys.

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