[1060] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: [Doug Engert ] Krlogind and ss-962301
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sun Apr 14 17:02:58 1996
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Apr 1996 16:53:01 EDT."
<tslybnyplxu.fsf@tertius.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:02:53 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
In message <tslybnyplxu.fsf@tertius.mit.edu>, Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> I'm somewhat reluctant to add additional OS-dependent
>> exceptions just to avoid using a complicated feature that is not
>> known to be broken. My experience is that streams have been
>> significantly more portable than other pty handling code and I try to
>> use it when present. I would rather wait until a problem is found in
>> the code.
Are you sure that *nothing* (no OS feature, no freeware, no
third-party commercial software, no anything) depends on the way the
vendor does things? If you start using streams, ps output changes in
the tty column. I am not ready to say that this will not break
anything. Are you?
Marc
