Re: what's the rationale for the /dev/pts mount point?

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:56:00 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i'm well aware of the use of the pseudo tty ports under /dev/pts, but i never understood the value of having a distinct devpts filesystem, until today. i was working with an embedded system with a

Re: what's the rationale for the /dev/pts mount point?

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Erik Mouw wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:56:00 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i'm well aware of the use of the pseudo tty ports under /dev/pts, but i never understood the value of having a distinct devpts filesystem, until today. i

Re: what's the rationale for the /dev/pts mount point?

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:39:08 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Erik Mouw wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:56:00 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: after i mounted /dev/pts (rw), ssh connections started to work. is

what's the rationale for the /dev/pts mount point?

i'm well aware of the use of the pseudo tty ports under /dev/pts, but i never understood the value of having a distinct devpts filesystem, until today. i was working with an embedded system with a flashed root filesystem that included /dev so, obviously, everything under /dev was also read