Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:40:20 -0700
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>> In the case of the initial open you don't yet know the tty pointer and
>>> may be creating it. SO the tty isn't a reference because it doesn't exist.
>>>
>> Got it. I was under the (apparently mistaken) notion that only pty tty
>> structures were created dynamically.
>
> tty is dynamically created and attached to the file handle. The port side
> structure is currently port specific and does last. Thats what the
> tty_port stuff is intended to slowly standardise but won't help ptys as
> they don't have a physical port anyway.
>
Got it, sorry for the confusion.
-hpa
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