glibc and Unix98 PTY's

[Ulrich Drepper]

Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl> writes:

> What do we do with 2.1.7x < kernel < 2.1.115, where TIOCGPTN has the
> old semantics?

For glibc we will in any case have to make the recommandation that no
2.1.x kernel is used.  There is , e.g., the recent ucred change and
other chnage like chown which make allowing any 2.1.x kernel a
nightmare.

So the only situations to care about is when somebody has a 2.0 or 2.2
kernel.

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