HEADS UP: pts code committed

[Stephen McKay]

On Monday, 30th January 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

>Stephen McKay <smckay at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
>> I had a quick look on a Solaris 8 machine and found only legacy pty devices
>> in /dev.  In /devices, they lump pts and pty nodes into /devices/pseudo
>> with a lot of other stuff.  Very messy.  So I don't think the new FreeBSD
>> /dev/ptynnn behaviour is the same as Solaris after all.
>
>% uname -a
>SunOS xantia 5.10 Generic_118844-27 i86pc i386 i86pc
>
>% ll /dev/pt*
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          31 Sep 27 17:26 /dev/ptmajor ->
>../devices/pseudo/ptm at 0:ptmajor
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          29 Sep 27 17:26 /dev/ptmx ->
>../devices/pseudo/clone at 0:ptm
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          29 Sep 27 17:26 /dev/ptyp0 ->
>../devices/pseudo/ptc at 0:ptyp0
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          29 Sep 27 17:26 /dev/ptyp1 ->
>../devices/pseudo/ptc at 0:ptyp1
>
>[...]
>
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          29 Sep 27 17:28 /dev/ptyrd ->
>../devices/pseudo/ptc at 0:ptyrd
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          29 Sep 27 17:28 /dev/ptyre ->
>../devices/pseudo/ptc at 0:ptyre
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          29 Sep 27 17:28 /dev/ptyrf ->
>../devices/pseudo/ptc at 0:ptyrf

These look like legacy names to me (ptyp0, ptyrd, etc).  I only have
access to a Solaris 8 machine, but from memory it looks the same as
your Solaris 10 machine.

Anyway, it's not terribly important whether or not Solaris is the same
as FreeBSD for the master devices.  The important part (/dev/pts/nnn)
is the same everywhere.

Stephen.

PS I just checked and the commit is in already.  I suppose the discussion
is done now. :-)