On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right, I think we can do this and still retain most of the
> advantages, at least for a transition period.
>
> The idea would be that you'd have a mount option, that if you do not specify
> it, you get a bind to the
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> There definitely needs to be a mount option (and possibly a config
>> option to forcibly enable the mount option). I personally have 5 or 6
>> different custom scripts that depend on being able to unmount and
>> remo
Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> There definitely needs to be a mount option (and possibly a config
>>> option to forcibly enable the mount option). I personally have 5 or 6
>>> different custom scripts that depend on being able
> There definitely needs to be a mount option (and possibly a config
> option to forcibly enable the mount option). I personally have 5 or 6
> different custom scripts that depend on being able to unmount and
> remount devpts without losing access to the TTYs therein. Eventually
> I will need to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Ok. But was wondering if we can pass the ptmx symlink burden to the
> 'container-startup sripts' since they are the ones that need the second
> or subsequent mount of devpts.
>
> So, initially and for systems that don't need multiple mounts of devpts,
> existing behav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Appreciate comments on overall approach of my mapping from the inode
> to sb->s_fs_info to allocated_ptys and the hacky use of get_sb_nodev(),
> and also on the tweak to init_dev() (patch 6).
>
First of all, thanks for taking this on :) It's always delightful to
sp
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> If devpts is mounted more than once, then '/dev/ptmx' must be a symlink
>> to '/dev/pts/ptmx' and in each new devpts mount we must create the
>> device node '/dev/pts/ptmx' [c, 5;2] by hand.
>
> This should be auto-created. That
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> If devpts is mounted more than once, then '/dev/ptmx' must be a symlink
> to '/dev/pts/ptmx' and in each new devpts mount we must create the
> device node '/dev/pts/ptmx' [c, 5;2] by hand.
>
This should be auto-created. That also eliminates any need to support
the
