Re: [L2tpd-devel] Unix98 PTY patch

[Jeff M. <je...@ig...>]

Also sprach Jeremy Lunn
>On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:54:29PM +0100, Huiban Yoann wrote:
>> I think you lost a little time implementing this patch.  See the
>> message "L2tpd Howto : increasing the number of sessions" in the
>> mailing list...

>Oh well... it was still a good exercise :-)

>Any ideaw hy the code from the howto wasn't implemented?

To be quite honest?  Because it was basically over my head at the
time...its still sitting in my in-box waiting for me to come up with
enough of the round tuits to figure out for sure what's going on with
it.  I got a few of those tuits today, but not enough to feel quite
comfortable with committing it yet.

I really don't want to commit code to this beast that makes it even more
cluttered, or limited as to the platforms that it works on than it
already is, so I want to be sure that we come up with a solution that
works (assuming everything else in the code base would work, which is
laughable at best at this point) on a variety of platforms.  The getpt(),
which I seem to remember seeing in Huiban's code, is, if I understand it
correctly, Linux specific, but I could be wrong, and if so I'll gladly
eat humble pie on this.  :)

For a similar reason, I haven't yet committed your patch like I said I
was going to earlier...since it spewed out several warnings, I wanted to
make sure that I knew for sure what was going on with it before I
committed it.  I've never worked with Unix98 PTY's, so I have a little
bit of learning to do here.
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