On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:13:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > If it's the former, then it might turn out that it's fast enough that
> > we can just run it, rather than doing the tarball nonsense. You might
> > like to time it, and see.
> On a system I just had access to, it took 15 seconds to create the 143 device
> file at installation. Most of them are ptyps, ptyqs, ttyps and ttyqs.
> (If used to set up the chroot's for the autobuilder, the number of those
> could certainly be lowered).
> Is this fast enough?
Wow. That's _very_ slow. For what it's doing it's probably about as slow
as the Linux MAKEDEV.
OTOH, in absolute terms it's not that big a deal, so it probably is fast
enough.
Cheers,
aj
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