Linus Torvalds [torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: | On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Serge Hallyn | <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > | > The only place that *might* be a problem is if initramsfs does a devpts | > mount, and later init blindly mounts tmpfs on /dev and mounts a new | > devpts. But it seems unlikely there would be any open pty's so it | > shouldn't really matter. | | 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. | | > I could go ahead and test that, say, ubuntu and fedora systems boot fine | > with this change. But of course I can't be sure there is no userspace | > out there that won't cope... | | I think the only way is to try it out. | | If you can test a few distros and at least validate that the approach | isn't *totally* broken, I'll apply it. It's early days in the -rc | series yet, and this does seem to be one of those things that we'd be | better off trying to do early rather than delay. Yes, hopefully the new distros can cope with 'newinstance' as the default and ones that can't can live with CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=n. Sukadev _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
