Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] /dev/pts and Unix98 PTY support

2003-09-02 Thread Chris I
On 2003.09.02 10:54, Luke Macken wrote: /dev/pts is included in /dev file system (CONFIG_DEVFS_FS) in the 2.4.20+ kernel. For some reason, they dropped support for it in the 2.6 kernel. The gentoo installation guide assumes use of the 2.4.20 kernel. Maybe they should make a note of this in the i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] /dev/pts and Unix98 PTY support

2003-09-02 Thread Luke Macken
/dev/pts is included in /dev file system (CONFIG_DEVFS_FS) in the 2.4.20+ kernel. For some reason, they dropped support for it in the 2.6 kernel. The gentoo installation guide assumes use of the 2.4.20 kernel. Maybe they should make a note of this in the install guide? luke On Tue, Sep 02

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] /dev/pts and Unix98 PTY support

2003-09-02 Thread Martin Larsson
If it's not bad to have, why not recomend it? It had atleast saved me some couple of hours ;) Sven Vermeulen wrote: Any reason in particular why we explicitly discourage users to enable /dev/pts (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS) in their kernels? I know that it is needed for 2.6 kernels, and I have a report that