Re: 2.1.115 no network pty's

david (david@kalifornia.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:45:38 -0700


Reply to mail from Mike Jagdis about 2.1.115 no network pty's
> It does if you delete all your old char-major-4 /dev/pty* /dev/tty*
> and replace them with the "new" char-major-2 and char-major-3
> pairs (see linux/Documentation/devices.txt).
>
> It seems someone has decided we've had the "new" ptys long
> enough and the old ones can go. Unfortunately, in all the time
> we've been waiting to get rid of them, no one ever got round
> to updating MAKEDEV and announcing it far and wide...

To whom it concerns/whomever is updating MAKEDEV:

can an option/required action happen in the script such that the old
devices are removed/stored in a backup directory? i'd like to clean out
/dev a little^H^Hlot.

thankyou,
-d

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