Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:34:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:34:27 -0400 Received: from mail1.home.nl ([213.51.129.162]:9967 "EHLO mail1.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:34:16 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: elko To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: /dev/pts question Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:35:44 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] X-Owner: ElkOS MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041822354404.00617@ElkOS> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello, as I understand, /dev/pts was created to make an end to the overload in /dev/ and let the kernel put the entries in /dev/pts when they are used/needed/installed. but still, when I enable /dev/pts, I have to keep the /dev/ for backward compatibility with already installed applications that rely on them. would it be possible/sane to make like a /dev/* (some sort of a /dev/B-compatible) besides /dev/pts, where the kernel `translates' the /dev/ request to /dev/* and then `translate' that to the correct /dev/pts entry ?? at least, something like that... -- elko - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/