You understand wrong. /dev/pts was constructed because the semantics
of BSD pty's is broken (there are issues with permissions.)
> but still, when I enable /dev/pts, I have to
> keep the /dev/<devices> for backward compatibility
> with already installed applications that rely on them.
You should fix your applications.
> would it be possible/sane to make like a
> /dev/* (some sort of a /dev/B-compatible) besides
> /dev/pts, where the kernel `translates' the
> /dev/<device> request to /dev/* and then
> `translate' that to the correct /dev/pts entry ??
Absolutely not. BSD and Unix98 ptys have different semantics, and
absolutely, positively, must be kept separate -- or you have a
security hole in your machine.
Fix your old applications.
-hpa
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