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Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior
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Serge Hallyn [serge.hallyn@canonical.com] wrote:
| 
| That has nothing to do with /dev/pts/ptmx, whose perms are set based on
| the '-o ptmxmode=" argument, and default to 000 if not specified.  If
| /dev/ptmx is going to be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx, then we have to set
| the /dev/pts/ptmx perms to not be 000, or users won't be able to create
| ptys.

If we are going to make 'newinstance' the default, maybe the default
ptmx mode could be changed to 0666 in the kernel too ?