On Wednesday 10 April 2013 14:56:26 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > tl;dr: make sure your /dev/pts is mounted correctly w/gid=5 or bad things
> > will happen and it's (probably) all your fault
> 
> So, who is this directed to?

any dev who maintains systems that handle initial mounting, or knows of random 
edge cases in the tree that might run into this.  i can't exactly grep our 
entire code base looking for devpts mounters.

> If this is to anybody who uses Gentoo,
> then at best this should be a place to hash out the contents of the
> news item.  We don't expect Gentoo users to read -dev.

users will be informed of the problem when the ebuild fails and then can 
trivially resolve it at that point.  this should impact very few (if any) 
users, so i don't think a news item makes sense.

> Certainly the
> maintainers of anything that mounts /dev/pts
> (OpenRC/SystemD/baselayout?) should take heed.

the maintainers are reading -dev
-mike

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