Re: [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior

2012-09-23 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/23/2012 10:42 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Greg, Kay, any idea how to make ptmx show up in devtmpfs as a symlink to pts/pmtx instead of as a device node? The conversation stalled in January with that very question. What I am proposing doesn't conflict with any effort like that. I ju

Re: [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior

2012-09-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"H. Peter Anvin" writes: > On 09/22/2012 08:47 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Making /dev/ptmx a symlink sounds simple, but in practice no one could >> actually figure out how to make it happen. > > This feels particularly ridiculous since udev now requires devtmpfs > (as in it will no longer wo

Re: [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior

2012-09-23 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 09/22/2012 08:47 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Making /dev/ptmx a symlink sounds simple, but in practice no one could actually figure out how to make it happen. This feels particularly ridiculous since udev now requires devtmpfs (as in it will no longer work without it), which means this is

[PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior

2012-09-22 Thread Eric W. Biederman
This is the restart of an old conversation that started out with Serge noting that there are problems taking advantage of the devpts newinstance mount option. As the conversation progressed it was suggested that the devpts newinstance mount option should just be removed if possible. Then the conv