Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 08:07:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.mips ttys Message-ID: <5978.1209974842@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 2008 00:04:59 MST." <481EB19B.3000201@freebsd.org>
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In message <481EB19B.3000201@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <200805050535.m455ZmI1030493@repoman.freebsd.org>, Warner Losh write >> s: >>> Added files: >>> etc/etc.mips ttys >>> Log: >>> Mips ttys file. Copied from i386 version with removal of the vga >>> entries. >> >> We should really replace this file with a script that generates it >> from a set of sensible parameters at build-time. > >Yes please -- kmacy might have worked around this, but at one point this >was the only non-kernel file which needed to be different for Xen builds. And for anyone looking at this, there is also a task to eliminate the pty devices in this file, the reason why they are there has to do with the introduction of the really weird notion of "remote logins" back in the early 1980'ies, we really could do better. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@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.
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