Re: [Cooker] What is devpts ??
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I can an error during mandrake 7.2 boot (I have messed with it) saying that > devpts cant be mounted cause the filetype is unknown. There is an entry > in fstab that causes this error. > > What is devpts ?? I assume that I am missing it in my kernel, but dont know > what option to include to get devpts - and ... what does it do (do I need it?) > devpts is a special filesystem type which opens terminals on demand. It "obsoletes" the ttyp?, ttyq? and other device nodes. The option is CONFIG_DEVPTS. Believe me, you want it. -- Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook
Re: [Cooker] What is devpts ??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I can an error during mandrake 7.2 boot (I have messed with it) saying that > devpts cant be mounted cause the filetype is unknown. There is an entry > in fstab that causes this error. > > > What is devpts ?? I assume that I am missing it in my kernel, but dont know > what option to include to get devpts - and ... what does it do (do I need it?) > The devpts file system is a pseudo file system, traditionally mounted on /dev/pts. In order to acquire a pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/. Cut and paste from "man mount" /Marco
[Cooker] What is devpts ??
Hi I can an error during mandrake 7.2 boot (I have messed with it) saying that devpts cant be mounted cause the filetype is unknown. There is an entry in fstab that causes this error. What is devpts ?? I assume that I am missing it in my kernel, but dont know what option to include to get devpts - and ... what does it do (do I need it?) Nigel
