On 10/11/18 2:40 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 07:14:30AM -0700, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> >>> I mean - what is the baud rate of a pty ? >> >> Whatever the master wants it to be... > > I think Alan's point is that it is highly unlikely you would be able > to push the equivalent of 4 gbps through a PTY layer. The TTY later > was never engineered for those speeds, and the real question is --- > what's the point? That's what Ethernet is for. > I like to consider the far future; I think things like the Y2038 problem is a good example. Or, as I like to put it, "numbers are cheap, running out of numbers is expensive." Sounds like we have enough of a plan that we aren't completely stuck should it ever become an issue. It might never, of course. -hpa
