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From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:03:35
Message-Id: 4D7F7F33.2000801@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete? by walt
1 On 03/14/11 20:48, walt wrote:
2 > On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
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6 >> FWICT, devfs "mounts" /dev/pts , so how do we mount /dev/pts in a
7 >> post devfs world?
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9 > I just deleted several paragraphs of fatherly advice from this reply
10 > after I noticed /lib/rc/init.d/started/devfs on my machine :-/
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12 Heh! That's actually how I got into this; I was tracking down a
13 different issue and came across devfs.
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16 > I soon discovered that /etc/init.d/devfs belongs to the
17 > sys-apps/openrc package,
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19 Ah!! Thank you! Guess that's how it got back in there.
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21 > which is not obsolete the way "devfs" is obsolete.
22 > This is what I have: #eselect rc list sysinit Init scripts to be
23 > started by runlevel sysinit devfs dmesg udev
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25 Thank you - same as mine. And I'll presume that your box will also break
26 if you shut down devfs.
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28 Guess my next move is to Bugzilla and suggest they update the
29 information on the two pages referenced above.
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31 Thanks again!