Problems with subshell

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Fri Apr 2 06:53:18 UTC 2004


On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

> > You did compile your kernel with pty support?
> > And you do mount devpts? With an fstab line like:
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>
>   Yes...I did compile everything in...but I didnt MOUNT it...sigh
>   Sorry for the false alarm.
>
>   But one question remains: I am using devfs(d). So...do I have to
>   mount devpts /really/ after calling devfd and not in fstab...
>   or are there other chnces ?

Yes, you have to mount it.  devfs would manage /dev/pts automatically in
the past, but this functionality was removed to avoid code duplication
between devfs and devpts.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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