Alan Cox wrote: >> This seems more than a bit redundant. The "instance", IMO, *is* the tty >> structure; so the interface should be: > > Only for a re-open - which is very different to an initial open, > and /dev/tty is deep magic in this situation. I guess I fail to understand something here, perhaps because I haven't looked at the code in very much details for several years. How is there not a 1:1 mapping between tty structures and instances, even in the presence of /dev/tty? (/dev/tty, of course, points to a real tty.) >> Not "index", but "inode". If, as a courtesy to the generic driver, we >> want to precalculate the index number we can do that, but otherwise that >> is of course available as: > > Thats a much bigger step and raises problems later on with consoles. We > might want to end up there - but not in one leap. *Nod.* It may mean that for consoles we have to provide transient inodes in rootfs. -hpa _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers