On 03/14/11 20:48, walt wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:

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>> FWICT, devfs "mounts" /dev/pts , so how do we mount /dev/pts in a
>> post devfs world?
>
> I just deleted several paragraphs of fatherly advice from this reply
> after I noticed /lib/rc/init.d/started/devfs on my machine :-/

Heh!  That's actually how I got into this; I was tracking down a
different issue and came across devfs.

>
> I soon discovered that /etc/init.d/devfs belongs to the
> sys-apps/openrc package,

Ah!! Thank you! Guess that's how it got back in there.

> which is not obsolete the way "devfs" is obsolete.
> This is what I have: #eselect rc list sysinit Init scripts to be
> started by runlevel sysinit devfs dmesg udev

Thank you - same as mine. And I'll presume that your box will also break
if you shut down devfs.

Guess my next move is to Bugzilla and suggest they update the
information on the two pages referenced above.

Thanks again!

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