Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 14:46:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel hacker tasks seek interested hackers Message-ID: <14854.934721200@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:36:31 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990815145836.19879K-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.990815145836.19879K-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Narvi writes: > >On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >[snip] > >> >> 7. [medium] The current naming for ptys doesn't scale that >> well. Changing it to ttyp%d / pty%d would probably be a >> good idea in the long run, but the ramifications are >> relatively widespread (think: "ports") >> > >Which while being scaleable in one direction (you can have things like >/dev/pty1234567890) as it is essentialy open ended, on the other hand: > > a) pty/tty names are now variable length > b) the name length advances quite quickly as we add more ptys > c) it is a totaly new "look and feel" > >So why not instead: I think that is needlessly complicated. I think tty%05d would solve all but the third of your objections, and quite frankly the "we've never done that before" argument works badly with me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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