On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:54:12 EDT, Alan Cox said: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:54:24AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > I am under the impression that /dev/[tp]ty* are strongly deprecated and not > > used in any software we ship. Is it time to completely remove them from > > Fedora? > > Some third party software still uses them. If they don't work with SELinux > I don't see a problem in them still being there. Looks like Linus picked up the LEGACY_PTY support back around 2.6.4-rc1 back in February, and nobody's said much about finding anything that was impacted by it. At the time, there was a lot of discussion and not many people mentioned any actual users of BSD ptys.... I don't see any reason that Fedora couldn't change the kernel config default to 'CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY=n' in the devel tree and see if anybody notices. It's certainly less intrusive than dropping exec-shield in and seeing who noticed, and THAT was considered acceptable...
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