> If anyone has a better idea on how userspace should connect the master > pty file descriptor the slave file descriptor, I would be willing to > implement that instead.
If we are willing to go away from the existing mess of a tty interface inflicted on us by BSD and then mashed up by POSIX then a syscall of int err = ptypair(int fd[2], int perms, int flags); [where flags is the O_ ones we usually need to cover (CLOEXEC etc) and maybe even some kind of "private" flag to say don't even expose it via devpts). would do remarkably sane things to the majoirty of use cases as it breaks the dependence on grantpt and also the historic screwup that pty pairs aren't allocated atomically with both file handles returned as pipe() does. Alan
