Re: Strange terminal problem with 2.5.6[8-9]

[Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>]

Hi!

Matthew Harrell wrote:
> : 2.5.68 and later have depreciated devpts support in devfs.  Thus
> : you have to enable:
> : 
> :  CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
> : 
> : and mount it during boot.  Easy way is just to add to fstab:
> : 
> : ------------------
> : none	/dev/pts	devpts	defaults	0 0
> : ------------------
> 
> Sure enough that was it.  Darn it.  I must have missed that change entirely.
> I was compiling in devpts but still figured it was mutually exclusive with
> devfs (which I am using).
> 
> Thanks
> 

Now try:
# time ps auwx > /dev/null

Here it takes more than two seconds :) That's because ps is trying to 
access /dev/pts[0-9]+ first. That results in a attempt to insert a 
module for that device.

Because I was getting tired of this i made a quick hack:
     # some confusion with devfsd and devpts in 2.5. Quick hack:
     for i in `seq 0 512` ; do  ln -s /dev/pts/$i /dev/pts$i 2>&1 > 
/dev/null ; done 2>&1 > /dev/null

..in my init scripts.

Using devfs (and devfsd) and devpts.

This is "new" in 2.5.68 and 69 :)

Regards,
Nuno Silva