christos@ wrote: > | - If we are going to remove compat pty nodes completely, > | why don't we also update all install stuff not implicitly > | using those node, i.e. shouldn't we change all install media > | to have mount_ptyfs(8) and explicitly mount /dev/pts in /.profile > | or /etc/rc scripts? > > We could do that, the ptyfs code is pretty small. I don't think it is a good > idea to do this for -6. But the postinstall code removes the pty nodes, so > there should be no security problem.
I'm afraid the postinstall is invoked only on upgrade install. x86's MAKEDEV scripts still have ipty in all_md and my freshly installed NetBSD/i386 6.0_RC1 still has /dev/[pt]typ[01] nodes. Should it be fixed even in netbsd-6? (in that case we should also fix installimage script to use ptyfs though) --- Izumi Tsutsui
