Re: glibc 2.1 is now on master in my homedir

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 08:46 -0500 1999-03-31, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:21:05AM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> > > Glibc 2.1 has a problem with having the /dev/ptmx device present and
> > > devpts not being mounted. If /dev/ptmx is presend then create /dev/pts
> > > and mount devpts there or it wont work right.
> >
> > I know, I've been telling people this.  But there are a few apps that
> > manually acquire pty's instead of using the libc functions, so they
> > end up with oldstyle one - it works, but isn't aesthetically pleasing.
>
> Maybe we need to get a preinst script that checks for this?

I have a better solution already, I wrote an init script that deals 
with mounting devpts if the kernel supports it, or removing /dev/ptmx 
if it doesn't.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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