I've recently created a port for linux-sublime and some of the packages users might add to sublime require loading pty. I haven't read the full thread so I'm not sure what would actually be removed but If there no reason for it I don't see why waste the time on such a task. is there for example any security concern about using the pty driver?
thanks On 27 November 2014 12:41:56 WET, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >-------- >In message <20141127095229.go17...@kib.kiev.ua>, Konstantin Belousov >writes: > >>On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:41:27PM -0800, Davide Italiano wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> >wrote: >>> > On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:00:14 AM Davide Italiano wrote: >>> >> One of my personal goals for 11 is to get rid of cloning >mechanism >>> >> entirely, and pty(4) is one of the few in-kernel drivers still >relying >>> >> on such mechanism. >>Why this is good thing to do ? > >I must have missed this detail back in august. > >I checked my archive of incoming email and I couldn't find any >reason or argument for removing dev_clone mechanism, and I would >very much object to its removal, unless a very compelling reason >exists ? > >I'll admit that the name is slightly misleading, it is really >a "dev_ondemand" facility which can also be used for cloning, >and because all the initial uses were cloning it got that name. > >(I have no soft feelings for the pty driver) > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by >incompetence. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
