[gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete?
On 03/14/11 20:48, walt wrote: On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: .. FWICT, devfs mounts /dev/pts , so how do we mount /dev/pts in a post devfs world? I just deleted several paragraphs of fatherly advice from this reply after I noticed /lib/rc/init.d/started/devfs on my machine :-/ Heh! That's actually how I got into this; I was tracking down a different issue and came across devfs. I soon discovered that /etc/init.d/devfs belongs to the sys-apps/openrc package, Ah!! Thank you! Guess that's how it got back in there. which is not obsolete the way devfs is obsolete. This is what I have: #eselect rc list sysinit Init scripts to be started by runlevel sysinit devfs dmesg udev Thank you - same as mine. And I'll presume that your box will also break if you shut down devfs. Guess my next move is to Bugzilla and suggest they update the information on the two pages referenced above. Thanks again!
[gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete?
On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: As per thehttp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml I recompiled my kernel with pts support, installed udev, and used rc-update to remove devfs from sysinit. Everything seems to work fine, except that I can't create xterms. If I start up devfs, xterm creation is fine. FWICT, devfs mounts /dev/pts , so how do we mount /dev/pts in a post devfs world? I just deleted several paragraphs of fatherly advice from this reply after I noticed /lib/rc/init.d/started/devfs on my machine :-/ I soon discovered that /etc/init.d/devfs belongs to the sys-apps/openrc package, which is not obsolete the way devfs is obsolete. This is what I have: #eselect rc list sysinit Init scripts to be started by runlevel sysinit devfs dmesg udev Thanks for asking the question -- I just learned something :)
