Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:50:58 +0100 | From | Thorsten Kukuk <> | Subject | Re: devfs v136, ZIP disks and glibc-2.1.2 |
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On Tue, Nov 09, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I think the following change to glibc was a mistake: > > 1999-07-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> > > * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpt.c: Check that /dev/pts is mounted. > (_PATH_DEVPTS, DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC): New definitions. > (_PATH_DEVPTMX): Use _PATH_DEV. > > Just as with the BSD pty's it is the job of the system administrator > to make sure that the nodes for the Unix98 pty slaves exist in the > filesystem. This can be done by several means. The canonical way is
I think you haven't read all the postings in the news about people complainig that xterm or ssh or whatever doesn't work, because they have removed the /dev/pts entry from fstab ? In a perfect Linux world, everbody knows what he is doing and is a perfect unix system administrator. In the real world, a lot of people doesn't know anything about Unix. They think, I don't know what /dev/pts is, so I don't need it and I can remove it. We also have to think on this people,not only on hacker, developer and admins.
Thorsten
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