[DSE-Dev] Legacy ptys and futur of the selinux-basics package.

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:41:13 +1100,
Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> a écrit :

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> wrote:
> > I was wondering, is the no-legacy-ptys.rules udev rule file still
> > necessary? It seems that the old fashion tty devices are properly
> > labeled, I'm thinking about dropping that file completely (in
> > experimental).
> 
> The old fashioned tty devices might be properly labeled, but AFAIK
> they NEVER worked correctly in the past and I don't expect things to
> have improved over the years of them not being used.

CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set in the current kernel anymore.

And are we actually really sure that this is working anyway? I still
see /dev/tty* devices.

Laurent Bigonville