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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: ELF and dynamic loading (Re: 386BSD vs Linux)
Message-ID: <1994Nov28.171326.32712@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:13:26 GMT
References: <3aqs7t$cp3@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CztKMo.K4A@info.swan.ac.uk> <Czu7u5.D7J@deshaw.com> <CzzAw7.H8z@info.swan.ac.uk>
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Also sprach iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) (<CzzAw7.H8z@info.swan.ac.uk>):
+---------------
| >Another problem is pty implementation; fortunately only a handful of
| >applications use ptys.
| 
| pty implementation is almost constant on any OS nowdays.
+------------->8

Oh, really?  (hint:  /dev/ptmx)

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH	 [44.70.4.88]		bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
Linux development:  iBCS2, JNOS, MH					 ~\U
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