In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Narvi
writes:
>
>On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>[snip]
>
>>
>> 7. [medium] The current naming for ptys doesn't scale that
>> well. Changing it to ttyp%d / pty%d would probably be a
>> good idea in the long run, but the ramifications are
>> relatively widespread (think: "ports")
>>
>
>Which while being scaleable in one direction (you can have things like
>/dev/pty1234567890) as it is essentialy open ended, on the other hand:
>
> a) pty/tty names are now variable length
> b) the name length advances quite quickly as we add more ptys
> c) it is a totaly new "look and feel"
>
>So why not instead:
I think that is needlessly complicated.
I think tty%05d would solve all but the third of your objections,
and quite frankly the "we've never done that before" argument
works badly with me.
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