Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:48:44 -0700 |
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The symlink support is at least 3 years old, probably more.
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:56:10PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Just replace /dev/ptmx with a pts/ptmx symlink... something that >works already. > >It does *not* work for static setups - try to boot stock 3.3 on the >root >fs with such a symlink and you've got a dangling symlink. Have fun >trying to bisect something with repeated jumps back and forth across >the >point where such change goes in... > >It will also do no good on setups like e.g. debian/stable, with stock >udev - you need to edit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules to get >that link created, with quite a bit of interesting kludgery to avoid >the >same kind of crap (i.e. setup breaking when you boot an older kernel).
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