Re: MAKEDEV still builds /dev/pty*

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I just noticed the following change on source-changes
>
>         Modified Files:
>                 src/etc [netbsd-6]: MAKEDEV.tmpl
>
>         Log Message:
>         Pull up following revision(s) (requested by christos in ticket #490):
>                 etc/MAKEDEV.tmpl: revision 1.157
>         Don't create BSD style pty nodes by default anymore since ptyfs is
>         mounted by default. Mention that this is a security issue, since
>         it allows pty access through the old style node.  While here,
>         pull up revision 1.54 (wedges) to reduces diffs to -current
>
> Yet it seems that a "default" installation still creates all the /dev/pty* 
> entries, even though the installation also creates and mounts a /dev/pts file 
> system.
>
> Is there something more that needs/should be done to make us do "the right 
> thing" on a default install?
>
> My example install is identical to the one done by the anita/qemu test 
> framework, using sysinstall.  One of the last things that sysinstall does is 
> run "MAKEDEV all".

Ooops, the 'build.sh release' I was using for my test was built right 
before the original rev 1.157 was committed, so was using the old rev of 
MAKEDEV.tmpl

Looks good now.  Sorry for the noise.



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