Re: no more free ptys

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:07:27PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> They've been obsoleted and removed as "nothing used them".

A few things do, not much nowdays

> Aparently there are also security issues with the old style ptys, so
> I'm not jumping for joy over the idea of reenabling them.

I wonder what LSB has to say on this. I suspect its only defining the
C library pty interfaces which would make things fine