On April 19, 2016 12:03:47 PM PDT, ebied...@xmission.com wrote: >"H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> 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
Perhaps a (privileged) option to exempt from the global limit, then. Something we can implement if asked for. However, I wouldn't be 100% that the reserved pool isn't used. Someone added it presumably for a reason. An administrator could say it and we'd have no idea. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting.
