On Thursday 11 April 2013 22:19:40 Duncan wrote: > Mike Frysinger posted on Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:49:00 -0400 as excerpted: > > On Thursday 11 April 2013 11:43:59 James Cloos wrote: > >> >>>>> "MF" == Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> MF> this should impact very few (if any) > >> MF> users, so i don't think a news item makes sense. > >> > >> It will impact everyone who has /dev/pts in fstab(5). > > > > don't do that. delete the line. > > I wonder if I added my devpts fstab entry (if as you say it wasn't an > automated add) some time ago, when there was some security related hubbub > over it, as significantly, my fstab entry has nosuid, noexec, while the > default for it in /etc/init.d/devfs does not. > > My fstab devpts entry also has noauto, but that's likely simply due to it > being an fstab entry... > > Regardless, that's at least two gentooers with installations dating from > the early 00s that have reported having the (GID-less) entry in fstab > now, so I strongly suspect it's going to affect more users, at least long- > time users, than you thought. It may in fact affect the majority of > users from that era... anyone who hasn't manually removed that entry from > fstab over the years. > > You mention it wasn't in the old baselayout/openrc tarballs. What about > the early stages? Perhaps that's where it came from? Anyone with 2004.x > vintage stage tarballs around to check?
stages get their files from baselayout/openrc. they don't generate them themselves. Robin found even older baselayout releases for me. baselayout-1.8.6.12 (released Nov 2011) and newer don't contain any mention of devpts. i don't know about 2004 releases, but i have stage tarballs i built in Oct 2005 using gcc-2.95 and they're exactly what i expect -- they match the baselayout install. -mike
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