Re: devfs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
8 Jan 1998 09:21:24 GMT

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>
> No to mention utmp, wtmp, any sort of logging, etc. Fact #1. A read
> only filesystem is always going to be a very special case. Fact
> #2. Nothing stops you building pty's on a seperate read-write
> filesystem.
>

*Especially* not if we start using the /dev/pts/NN form for pty
slaves, which is probably the best thing anyway.

-hpa

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