Re: devfs v136, ZIP disks and glibc-2.1.2

Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
07 Nov 1999 19:15:19 +0100


>>>>> Stefan Monnier writes:

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>> We have to check for the magic because you can have a directory
>> /dev/pts but not devpts compiled into your kernel. Therefore we need
>> a way to know exactly if devpts is available.

Stefan> Isn't it possible to use a more direct approach where you
Stefan> use the devpts code and if the kernel burps or if the file does not
Stefan> appear under /dev/pts, you revert to the other case ?

I don't think so - but Andreas Schwab might know better since AFAIK he
made that patch.

Andreas

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