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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] /dev/pts and Unix98 PTY support
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:50:54
Message-Id: 20030902105010.GA24918@gentoo.org
1 Any reason in particular why we explicitly discourage users to enable
2 /dev/pts (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS) in their kernels? I know that it is needed for
3 2.6 kernels, and I have a report that some terminal-emulators need it too
4 (#27583).
5
6 If not, can I just remove it alltogether from the guide? Or tell the users to
7 enable it instead of disabling it?
8
9 Wkr,
10 Sven Vermeulen
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14 (oo) Sven Vermeulen
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