"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> writes: >>- Support for reserving ptys for the system devpts instance using >> /proc/sys/kernel/pty/reserve needs to be removed. >> >>Eric > > pty capping should probably be a devpts mount option
There is a max option so pty capping is a per devpts option. > , and perhaps a > sufficiently privileged user could be allowed to set another mount > option to allow that instance to dip into the reserved pool or exempt > it completely from the global limit as set in sysctl. I agree that we could keep the reserved pool, and add a new way to access it. However no piece of existing userspace could use it. So the simplest thing to do (unless something actually breaks), is to just remove the reserve pool. Eric
