Re: UNIX98 ptys in /etc/fstab
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 08:52:37PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 05:39:18PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > The /etc/fstab generated by the install still has comments in it that say to
> > uncomment them for unix98 pty support. Of course, that is not necessary,
> > since /dev/pts is mounted by other means. I think those comments should be
> > deleted. Anyone disagree?
> >
> > I'd delete them, but though I can find where they are defined
> > (documentation/messages.ent), I cannot find how those SGML entities are
> > actually used..
>
> I agree (atleast if Joel can keep the bugs out of devpts.sh :). There are
> too many intracacies involved to just have it in fstab since the user
> could disable unix98 pty's on a custom kernel, and then see an error, or
> mess up the /dev/pts directory, etc...devpts.sh gives better control is
> odd situations.
I could have sworn I just saw a changelog from the most recent libc6 that
said devpts.sh was removed. Dunno what the reasoning was. If thats the case
then maybe the lines in fstab need to be uncommented ?
Greg
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