Hi Bruce,

* Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> wrote:
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>    Maksim seems to be talking about the use case where folk are actually=
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> doing straight serial over RFCOMM and need to tie it down to a known tty,=
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> though.

Ah, that's indeed something I didn't know. Well, in that case we still
need pseudo-terminals.

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>    Surely there must be a way to tie rfcomm_sppd down to a specific pts =
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> number, or failing that, teach it to report the pts which it got=20
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Well, with MPSAFE TTY the only way pseudo-terminals should be allocated,
is by calling posix_openpt(). The device name is determined by a simple
unrhdr (alloc_unr(9)). There is no actual way to influence the naming,
so I guess we should make rfcomm_sppd just use a random device name. We
could maybe solve this by creating a symlink to the TTY?

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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