On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:15:41PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:34:58 +0930,
>> David Lloyd <lloy0076@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >I use the RedHat kernel distro. Would it be asking too much to have two
>> >ISO's, one with devfs on and the other not?
>>
>> Just boot with "devfs=nomount". No need for two images.
>
>Although... Red Hat tells us that there are race conditions and root
>exploits when using devfs, even if it is not mounted. I have not
>investigated this.... but I'm more and more inclined to just ship the
>new RPMs with no devfs at all, and let the power-users who want the
>cutting edge devfs stuff recompile their kernel...
Eric,
Could you point to the source of RH's warnings about devfs? I'd like to read
what they've got to say about it.
--
Alan Eldridge
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