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My pseudo-tty devices don work any more. What happened?

April 26, 2017Devices happened pseudo-tty

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My pseudo-tty devices don work any more. What happened?

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• (TJ) Support for ptys using a major number of 4 was dropped in Linux 2.1.115. Replace your device files with ones using the new major numbers, 2 and 3. They will work with later 1.3 versions of Linux, and any 2.x version. • (REG) If you use devfs, then this problem magically goes away.