Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:27:14 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: persistent ptys
Message-ID: <20040909122714.GA1065@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> It seems BSD style ptys are on the way out, and most systems will soon 
> have just Unix98 style ptys. This makes me want to move something to 
> Unix98 ptys, but I'm not sure of the appropriate way. The issue is that 
> things like HylaFAX expect to work with well known, persistent, names 
> for modem ports. A 100% soft modem in user space can easily provide that 
> with BSD ptys. With Unix98 ptys it is not so obvious what to
> do. Most 

Do you actually have user-space softmodem implementation? Is it
open-source? I guess it would be very interesting for remaining modem
users :-).
								Pavel
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