Howdy,
I just spend many hours battling with a glibc-2.1.2 bug (before
I knew about the bug).
The symptoms are that after switching to devfs, gnome-terms
don't get a shell prompt, and you get error dialogs, telling you
that you need to configure your ptys correctly.
The bug was discovered by the Rock linux distro. AFAIK, they
are the only distro that uses devfs. The bug is fixed in
glibc-2.1.3. I downloaded glibc-2.1.3-16.i386.rpm from one of
the rawhide mirrors, but sources are also available from Ulrich's
ftp site at cygnus.
I think that this problem should be mentioned in the
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README.
Cheers,
chippo
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