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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.12 ... 2.4.16, /dev/tty
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In article <XFMail.20011127085220.backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de> you wrote:
> still having problems (starting with kernel 2.4.12) with
> the /dev/tty device:

Do you have devfs? In that case the Devices are generated dynamically.

If you run ls on /dev/tty you should see an Entry with major 5 and minor
number 0.

Greetings
Bernd