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From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior
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Quoting Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org):
> We might also thing about changing /sys/class/tty/ptmx/, and have the
> kernel create the symlink? The loops through userspace to setup
> default kernel stuff are kind of crazy ...
> 
> Kay

Hi Kay,

sorry, there is something I'm missing here.  Without a target kobj
to link to, how would we go about telling the kernel that /dev/ptmx
should be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx?  Is there a way to do that?

thanks,
-serge