Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:17:24 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: small devfs patch for 2.5.65, plan to replace /sbin/hotplug |
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:10:10PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > I'm thinking about removing all of the capability raising code > from devfs and just having the pty code raise the capabilities > explicitly if allocating and releasing a pseudo-terminal are really > the only places that ever need it.
My plan is to rip out UNIX98 pty handling copletly out of devfs instead. We already have a lean, small filesystem exactly for that purpose and it adds lots of unessecary cruft to devfs (DEVFS_FL_CURRENT_OWNER and DEVFS_FL_WAIT to be exact). Afterwards devfs would only create /dev/pts/ (and /dev/pty/ as devfs renamed it IIRC) and devfs users would have to mount devpts aswell.
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