On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:26:12PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> - MAKEDEV already has "makedir" command so isn't it better to use
> "makedir pts 755" as "ptm" entry does? Or just do "mkdev ptm"?
Yes, that is better.
> - isn't it better to fallback to create compat ipty nodes
> if mount_ptyfs fails, so that we don't have to put tweaks into
> obsolete install floppies?
> (though it might cause inode shortage because a number of nodes is
> calculated before create_mfs_dev is called in makedev_main())
Or set a flag variable if we mounted ptyfs and ignore {i,o}pty calls
if that is set (assuming that by now we mostly have ipty requests everywhere
where it is needed)?
Martin
