 | | | devpts filesystem.. | devpts filesystem.. 2004-02-20 - By John Haxby
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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>The Unix98 specification changes over from tty's to pts's.
>>When you log
>>into the box via telnet or ssh, do a "w" or "who" and you'll see that
>>you're logged into pts/0, pts/1, etc. If you do an "ls
>>/dev/pts" at that
>>point, you'll see "0" or "1", etc.
>>
>>
>
>In That case, I would think that's it's not really detrimental
>to leave it out of the system right? Or should I recompile my
>system?
>
>In what circumstance would this dev/pts filesystem be useful for??
>
>
You're not using X either then are you? Terminal emulators use
/dev/pts. Any sort of remote access to the machine uses /dev/pts.
expect and ppp, among other programs, use /dev/pts. It's rather silly
to try to do without it -- while you're probably seeing things like
"/dev/ptya1" instead (I'm guessing, I've never tried it), you're not
doing yourself any favours at all -- your not benefiting from better
security, smaller or faster kernel or anything like that. Quite
possibly the other way around in fact. Take a look at the section on
pseudo terminals in Documentation/devices.txt.
jch
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