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From: Nathan Walp <faceprint@faceprint.com>
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To: John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: devfs vs. devpts
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John Jasen wrote:
> 
> On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote:
> 
> > i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you
> > have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with
> > Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem.  i get the
> > following error at the very end of 'make bzImage':
> 
> snipped from .config:
> 
> #
> # Character devices
> #
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL=y
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
> 
> #
> # File systems
> #
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG=y
> ...
> # CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS is not set
> 
> from my /etc/devfsd.conf, I have:
> REGISTER        pts/.*          MKOLDCOMPAT
> UNREGISTER      pts/.*          RMOLDCOMPAT
> 
> and for permissions:
> REGISTER        pts/.*          IGNORE
> 

I had the same problem, so i added those devfsd lines to my config
files, and everything's peachy now.  I'm thinking it's a debian problem,
cause everything was fine till I ran a dist-upgrade.  I didn't notice it
right away, and I did random kernel stuff before I did notice it.  Ian,
which debian are you running, I'm using sid.

Nathan
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