From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757515Ab2AXVTk (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:40 -0500 Received: from mx.scalarmail.ca ([98.158.95.75]:60273 "EHLO ironport-01.sms.scalar.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755844Ab2AXVTj (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:35 -0500 From: Nick Bowler To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Linus Torvalds , Serge Hallyn , Dave Hansen , Andy Whitcroft , Al Viro , Matt Helsley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior Message-ID: <20120124211935.GA21252@elliptictech.com> References: <20120124000517.GA28878@sergelap> <20120124002555.GA29534@sergelap> <20120124205502.GC20039@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120124205502.GC20039@us.ibm.com> Organization: Elliptic Technologies Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2012-01-24 12:55 -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > Linus Torvalds [torvalds@linux-foundation.org] wrote: [...] > | If you can test a few distros and at least validate that the approach > | isn't *totally* broken, I'll apply it. It's early days in the -rc > | series yet, and this does seem to be one of those things that we'd be > | better off trying to do early rather than delay. > > Yes, hopefully the new distros can cope with 'newinstance' as the default > and ones that can't can live with CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=n. What about people who chroot into an "old" distro from a "new" livecd? Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)