Bug#189879: libc6: 2.5.68 changed the way devfs+devpts works
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-16
Severity: wishlist
You have to mount devpts now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux ysabell 2.5.68 #1 Sun Apr 20 19:18:43 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
-- no debconf information
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Marcelo | He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he
mmagallo@debian.org | really wanted to do was make things go splat.
| -- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
--- devpts.sh.orig 2003-04-20 20:59:49.000000000 +0200
+++ devpts.sh 2003-04-20 21:05:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -13,8 +13,16 @@
devpts_avail=`grep -qci '[<[:space:]]devpts' /proc/filesystems || true`
devpts_mounted=`grep -qci '/dev/pts' /proc/mounts || true`
devfs_mounted=`grep -qci '[<[:space:]]/dev[>[:space:]].*devfs' /proc/mounts || true`
+kernel_version=0
-if [ $devfs_mounted = 0 ] && [ $devpts_avail != 0 ]
+OIFS="$IFS"
+IFS=.
+for n in `uname -r` ; do
+ kernel_version=`expr $kernel_version \* 1000 + $n`
+done
+IFS="$OIFS"
+
+if [ "$devfs_mounted" = 0 ] || [ "$kernel_version" -ge 2005068 ] && [ "$devpts_avail" != 0 ]
then
#
# Create mountpoint and multiplexor device.
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