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diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 0abb57eb51..5aca058653 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ One auxiliary program, @file{/usr/libexec/pt_chown}, is installed setuid sets the permissions on a pseudoterminal so it can be used by the calling process. This means programs like @code{xterm} and @code{screen} do not have to be setuid to get a pty. (There may be -other reasons why they need privileges.) If you are using a 2.1 or -newer Linux kernel with the @code{devptsfs} or @code{devfs} filesystems +other reasons why they need privileges.) If you are using a +Linux kernel with the @code{devptsfs} or @code{devfs} filesystems providing pty slaves, you don't need this program; otherwise you do. The source for @file{pt_chown} is in @file{login/programs/pt_chown.c}. @@ -428,11 +428,6 @@ if you configure @theglibc{} with @samp{--prefix=/usr}. If you set some other prefix or allow it to default to @file{/usr/local}, then all the components are installed there. -You cannot use @code{nscd} with 2.0 kernels, due to bugs in the -kernel-side thread support. @code{nscd} happens to hit these bugs -particularly hard, but you might have problems with any threaded -program. - @node Reporting Bugs @appendixsec Reporting Bugs @cindex reporting bugs |