Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common/bootimage

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 17,  1:58am, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common/bootimage

| > | IMO we should rather focus on marketing than consistency for developers...
| > 
| > Can you please expand? I don't understand how marketing helps existing
| > developers.
| 
| No user, no feedback?

If there are no users, then there is no point in carrying stuff forward.

| For example, most (all?) other ports still have opty.
| You also have to check MAKEDEVTARGETS= in Makefiles under src/distrib.
| That was the reason why we failed before.

Ok.

| Then I asked not only the goal but also actual procedure how to
| avoid possible fallout.  Everything can be done, but we are
| far from the perfect.
| 
| My vote is to keep compat code for now and just try mount(2) ptyfs
| when openpty(3) failed for better migration, as I wrote in the PR.
| 
| Anyway, I think our discussion is over and we need votes from others.

My vote is to keep compat code, add ptyfs to all install kernels, and
try mounting ptyfs from sysinst before openpty.

christos