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In message <20070106213651.GD46094@hoeg.nl>, Ed Schouten writes:

>> But only calling the handler on CREATE will not work, because plenty
>> of programs will stat(2) first and find nothing there and complain
>> to the user.
>
>Is it really needed that we keep such compatibility? Shouldn't those
>applications use grantpt(3) or pty(3) functions anyway?

Not only PTY uses cloning.

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