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Date:      Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:10:26 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for PTY/devfs changes 
Message-ID:  <11097.1168121426@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:36:51 %2B0100." <20070106213651.GD46094@hoeg.nl> 

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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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