Re: devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread Nathan Walp
John Jasen wrote: > > On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you > > have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with > > Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem. i get the > > following error

Re: devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread John Jasen
On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote: > i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you > have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with > Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem. i get the > following error at the very end of 'make

devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread Ian Soboroff
I'm running 2.4.2ac7, and am having problems with Unix98 ptys. Occasionally rxvt and Eterm fail to run because they can't get permission to create their entry in /dev/pts. So i wondered if i have a devfs problem, which led me to the following... In Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README, it is

devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread Ian Soboroff
I'm running 2.4.2ac7, and am having problems with Unix98 ptys. Occasionally rxvt and Eterm fail to run because they can't get permission to create their entry in /dev/pts. So i wondered if i have a devfs problem, which led me to the following... In Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README, it is

Re: devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread John Jasen
On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote: i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem. i get the following error at the very end of 'make bzImage':

Re: devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread Nathan Walp
John Jasen wrote: On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote: i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem. i get the following error at the