On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:40:03PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Doesn't working STREAMS exist on UnixWare too? I still think the
UnixWare? Seriously?
right thing to do is to detect STREAMS. If someone installs broken STREAMS on Linux, then it is their responsibility to find a more
They're not broken - installing the STREAMS support doesn't magically rewrite the Linux kernel pty code to use it. You seem to be arguing that I should introduce potential bugs, with zero benefit.
Of course, my preferred fix would be for Solaris to drop STREAMS, but that's a vain hope :)
There's the problem - if Solaris drop streams, the #ifdef __sun checks will be incorrect.
No - if this ever happens, it will not break pty-using code. Again, what test are you thinking of to detect that the pty code is STREAMS based? I'm not being obstructive here - I genuinely cannot conceive what such a test would look like. regards, john