On Sunday, 15 August 1999 at 12:27:57 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> Well, autumn and winter is on us pretty soon. At least on my
> lattitude that means hot tea inside warm and cosy houses while the
> elements do their best to make life misserable for anything still
> left on the outside.
>
> Here are some tasks which could put an evening or more to
> productive and educational use for interested kernel hackers.
>
> They may also make a nice assignment for CS classes.
>
> 1. [easy] The SLIP device/interface could use the same
> makeover as tun, bpf and pty has received. (see also #5)
Care to explain (read: document) the makeover? That would make this
and the following tasks even simpler.
> 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")
Is there any reason not to have both names, at least for the first 256
devices?
Greg
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