Chris the Elder writes:
> 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.
It's documented in the new FAQ:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
Regards,
Richard....
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