Re: Q: On restoring terminal with hinted index

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 08/15/2012 08:25 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> that happened that in a sake of restoring ptys after checkpoint
> we need to create them with predefined indices, as they were at
> moment of dumping. So we have two options -- 1) Open terminals
> in sequence until needed index reached 2) Use some other way to
> say the kernel that some index is preferred.
> 
> So I thought, would it be acceptible to provide such hint via
> sysctl, as in patch below (note I've not even compiled it yet,
> but would like to know your opinion early).
> 
> (Maybe even make it one shot, thus once ida_get_new_above called
>  the pty_next reset to zero).
> 

Pardon me while I vomit... an interaction between sysctl and open?  Talk
about a race condition from hell.  It is stateful, and not connected to
the filesystem instance that it is supposed to be affecting.  So no,
please don't.  I understand your objective but it really needs to be
something attached to the pts filesystem instance in question.

	-hpa