Bug#46799: add makedev to notes on running slink with kernel 2.2.x

[raj@colsa.com (Raj Manandhar)]

Bdale Garbee writes in message <[🔎] 199910070208.UAA12023@chunks.gag.com> (20:08:53 Wednesday 6 October 1999): 
 > In article <[🔎] m11Yt3b-00003GC@droid.colsa.com> you wrote:
 > 
 > > makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in
 > > it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of
 > > /dev.
 > 
 > The makedev package creates devices in the current working directory.  This has
 > been the behavior of all makedev packages I know of except for the Debian 1.6
 > series, now defunct for over a year.
 > 
 > Bdale

The makedev.postinst script creates a script in /etc/rc.boot/makedev
which creates new pty masters and slaves, overwriting the old ones, if
ones with old major numbers are found. I believe that the list of old
devices didn't have "/dev/" in it, so that at reboot, the new devices
ended up in /. It's hard for me to double-check now, because I had
upgraded makedev by the time I got to sending the bug report. However,
I had 128 ptys in /, and the ptys in /dev were still old-style, and I
traced the preceding logic when I had the old makedev.

I should have been more explicit. But the bug report was against the
web site, not makedev, which is fixed in any case now.

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