pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation

LI Xin delphij at delphij.net
Thu Nov 22 14:20:51 PST 2007


Dan Epure wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For the moment this feature is only available in HEAD. I think the limit is "only" 512 master/slave pairs.
> Should be enough for this year. Is it going to be merged  in 6.3 ? 
> Thanks again.

I don't think so.  Currently the FreeBSD pts implementation has some
serious issues that must be resolved before we can "officially" expose
it to users, and merging it to 6.3 does not seem to be reasonable at
this moment.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 249 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20071122/d19cf5c8/signature.pgp


More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list