To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.5-mm5 devpts filesystem doesn't work
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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:36:01 +0100
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
>>
>> I tried stepping up from 2.6.5-rc3-mm4 to 2.6.5-mm4.
>> This Quokka seems too zonked to work though.
>> 
>> It came up, but I couldn't run "xterm".  Trying from
>> the xemacs shell I saw an error message about not enough ptys.
>> I use the devpts fs mounted on /dev/pts
>> 
>> It mounts just fine, but doesn't work apparently.  There are no
>> such problems with 2.6.5-rc3-mm4
>
> Is this 2.6.5-mm4 or 2.6.5-mm5?
>
> If the latter, try reverting pty-allocation-first-fit.patch

Also seeing this with 2.6.5-mm5, reverting pty-allocation-first-fit.patch
fixes it.

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