On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:08:35PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Kostik, > > * Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can we switch to %x ? Or even, use some radix encoding of the number, > > to allow alphabetical symbols too ? > > I guess that would break a lot of existing libraries. For example: older > RELENG_7/CURRENT libcs might still use TIOCGPTN. This ioctl just returns > a number that is just printed into a device name using "/dev/pts/%u" as > a format. I also suspect a lot of Linux/Solaris-minded software expects > the names to be in decimal form.
Or change 'pts' to, for example, 'pt' so without changing utmp and related stuff we'll have space for a four digit pty number. -- Paul Schenkeveld _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
