who on FreeBSD 8.0 - AMD64

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Tue Dec 9 08:46:33 PST 2008


2008/12/9 Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight at mail.ru>:
> Hi Rink Springer!
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:27:18 +0100; Rink Springer wrote about 'Re: who on FreeBSD 8.0 - AMD64':
>
>>> By the way, are there pseudo-terminal names renamed in -CURRENT ? Why?
>> Yes, this is the result of the new giant-free TTY layer that was
>> imported a few months ago.
>
> What was the reason to rename? Isn't that a POLA violation for both
> users/older software?
>

You should read pty(4).

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