Changeset 3a788f0c for chapter06/makedev-inst.xml

Timestamp:

09/24/2003 11:48:45 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

Branches:

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Children:

dcca029

Parents:

978d0bf

Message:

Next batch of fixes for Bug 675 - missing command descriptions.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2880 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/makedev-inst.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/makedev-inst.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 <para>Please note that unpacking the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file
 doesn't create a directory for you to <userinput>cd</userinput> into, as
-the file contains one shell script.</para>
+the file only contains a single shell script.</para>
 
 <para>Install the MAKEDEV script:</para>
@@ -18 +18 @@
 ./MAKEDEV -v generic-nopty</userinput></screen></para>
 
+<para>The meaning of the option:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>-v generic-nopty</userinput>: The
+<userinput>-v</userinput> parameter tells the MAKEDEV script to run in verbose
+mode. The <userinput>generic-nopty</userinput> parameter instructs MAKEDEV to
+create a generic selection of commonly used device special files, except for the
+ptyXX and ttyXX range of files. We don't need those files because we are going
+to use Unix98 PTYs via the <emphasis>devpts</emphasis> file
+system.</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
 <para>If a device you need is missing, try running
 <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v &lt;device&gt;</userinput>. Alternatively, you may