Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts | From | Theodore Tso <> | Date | Sun, 8 Apr 2012 23:15:07 -0400 |
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On Apr 8, 2012, at 6:45 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/08/2012 03:46 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> What if it turns out we can make udev/devtmpfs make this happen >>> transparently (which it sounds like it might be possible)? Would you be >>> okay with removing the "implicit bind mount" property of the current >>> devpts then? >> >> Once we get to the point where it "just works" I'm quite happy for that >> to happen unless it turns out there's any large code size/performance >> hits in having the feature always on. I don't see any. >> > > No, it's actually the other way around... it lets us take some pretty > nice shortcuts.
If it requires making changes to udev, can we place make sure have a decent amount of time before we remove code from the kernel? I really hate it when people break userspace for the convenience of kernel programmers. As I recall Linus had something to say about that….
-- Ted
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