On sön, 2016-03-13 at 22:06 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > We used to have ptmx be owned by the inner uid and gid 0. Change > this: if the owner and group are both mapped but are not both 0, > then use the owner instead. > > For container-style namespaces (LXC, etc), this should have no > effect -- UID 0 is will either be the owner or will be unmapped. > > The important behavior change is for sandboxes: many sandboxes > intentionally do not create an inner uid 0. Without this patch, > mounting devpts in such a sandbox is awkward. With this patch, it > will just work and ptmx will be owned by the namespace owner. > > Cc: Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> > Cc: Linux Containers <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> Seems to work fine for me! Thanks! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [email protected] [email protected] He's an uncontrollable voodoo librarian with a robot buddy named Sparky. She's a cynical winged journalist from the wrong side of the tracks. They fight crime!

