On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:15 -0300, Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
I believe the missing question is: what is the rationale beyond this decision of putting the /dev/pts out of fstab? Besides the aforementioned robustness (which at some point I tend to agree), what else would be the technically benefits? If for nothing else than "stopping the user to shoot his foot", I believe this should not be done, as I need to agree that it hurts Arch Way. Also as pointed before, it may create problems with chroot (if I understood correctly).
chroots need a proper setup anyways. Before I enter my chroots, I use bind mounts to do so. Mounting a new devpts filesystem inside a chroot in my case makes screen fail to work, as it can't attach to the terminal my chroot is running in. As rc.sysinit isn't executed for chroots, I don't see a problem here.