On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 04:41:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Right. I think the opportunity for problems should be pretty small. > > And it's not like the pty itself wouldn't continue to work - it's just > that programs like /usr/bin/tty wouldn't be able to *find* it. > > Although who knows - maybe there is some other subtle interaction. FWIW, the subtle and nasty part in all that is that you can mknod /dev/ptmx and it *will* work, refering to the "initial" instance. That's what concerns me about the chroot scenarios - mknod /jail/dev/ptmx c 5 2 mkdir /jail/dev/pts mount -t devpts /jail/dev/pts chroot /jail works fine right now, but with that change behaviour will be all wrong - opening /dev/ptmx inside of jail will grab you a pts, all right, but it will *not* show up in (jail) /dev/pts/* as it does with the current kernel. Note that if you replace that mknod with symlink pts/ptmx /jail/dev/ptmx the things will keep working. However, that will _only_ work for kernels with DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES - without it you won't get ptmx inside devpts (which is arguably wrong, BTW) _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
