On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:31:28PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > glibc's grantpt and ptsname cannot be used on a fd for a pty not in > /dev/pts. The lxc controller tries to do just that. So if you try to > start a container on a system where /dev/pts/0 is not available, it > will fail. You can make this happen by opening a terminal on > /dev/pts/0, and doing 'sleep 2h & disown; exit'. To fix this, I call > the virFileOpenTtyAt() from a forked task in a new mount ns, and first > mount the container's /dev/pts onto /dev/pts. (Then the opened fd must > be passed back to the lxc driver). Another solution would be to just > do it all by hand without grantpt and ptsname. GNULIB already has a 'grantpt' implementation for MinGW, OpenBSD and OS-X. So I wonder if they would like to fix the broken Linux glibc version too ? Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list