On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 21:52, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Quoting Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx): >>> We might also thing about changing /sys/class/tty/ptmx/, and have the >>> kernel create the symlink? The loops through userspace to setup >>> default kernel stuff are kind of crazy ... >> sorry, there is something I'm missing here. Without a target kobj >> to link to, how would we go about telling the kernel that /dev/ptmx >> should be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx? Is there a way to do that? There is no support for symlinks in the core at the moment. But I guess we could just add support for it to the driver core and devtmpfs to create a symlink in /dev instead of a device node. The ptmx device would need to pass that information along to the driver core call when creating the ptmx device. > There is precedent in the /dev/fd symlinks, so I expect you want > to look and see where the configuration for that comes from. That's a static list of stuff created at startup. But it's easier to do in usersace, because /proc is not configurable or optional for usual use cases, so we can just do it unconditionally in userspace. They also can not conflict with device nodes. Kay _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
