On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is definitely NOT SAFE! > > If you don't have /dev/shm, POSIX shared memory will use the same tmpfs > filesystem as /dev, which is currently limited to 10MB - POSIX shared > memory blocks might be much larger. > > As for removing /dev/pts, I was tempted to tell you to do it, as it's SO > funny what happens: No pseudo TTYs are available anymore. This will > effectively prevent ssh logins, screen, any X terminal and probably many > more applications from allocating a TTY, so the only way to get a shell > is to login via a real TTY (console). > > I am curious, why would you want to remove these? I am glad thouh that > you asked BEFORE killing your system instead of after. > > Random suggestion : adding a one-line comment before these two entries describing what they are for (i.e. sumup of the above) :)
