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On Thursday 11 April 2013 22:19:40 Duncan wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger posted on Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:49:00 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> > On Thursday 11 April 2013 11:43:59 James Cloos wrote: |
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> >> >>>>> "MF" == Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> writes: |
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> >> MF> this should impact very few (if any) |
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> >> MF> users, so i don't think a news item makes sense. |
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> >> |
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> >> It will impact everyone who has /dev/pts in fstab(5). |
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> > don't do that. delete the line. |
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> I wonder if I added my devpts fstab entry (if as you say it wasn't an |
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> automated add) some time ago, when there was some security related hubbub |
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> over it, as significantly, my fstab entry has nosuid, noexec, while the |
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> default for it in /etc/init.d/devfs does not. |
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> My fstab devpts entry also has noauto, but that's likely simply due to it |
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> being an fstab entry... |
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> Regardless, that's at least two gentooers with installations dating from |
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> the early 00s that have reported having the (GID-less) entry in fstab |
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> now, so I strongly suspect it's going to affect more users, at least long- |
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> time users, than you thought. It may in fact affect the majority of |
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> users from that era... anyone who hasn't manually removed that entry from |
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> fstab over the years. |
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> You mention it wasn't in the old baselayout/openrc tarballs. What about |
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> the early stages? Perhaps that's where it came from? Anyone with 2004.x |
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> vintage stage tarballs around to check? |
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stages get their files from baselayout/openrc. they don't generate them |
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themselves. |
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Robin found even older baselayout releases for me. baselayout-1.8.6.12 |
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(released Nov 2011) and newer don't contain any mention of devpts. |
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i don't know about 2004 releases, but i have stage tarballs i built in Oct |
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2005 using gcc-2.95 and they're exactly what i expect -- they match the |
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baselayout install. |
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-mike |