Re: device nodes with udev?

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> writes:
> /dev/{pts/,ptmx} are so trivial to support (in applications) that I
> think it's worthwhile to disable legacy BSD pty support in Debian
> kernels, and fix whatever still breaks.  That is, unless we think there
> are still a significant number of third-party non-free apps out there
> still using them.

There's a pretty easy way to find out...
[and now seems to be the time in the release cycle to do it.]

> Likewise, I'd also support having udev ship a rule which by default
> ignores /dev/{tty,pty}[p-za-e]*.

Yeah, me too.

-miles
-- 
I'd rather be consing.