From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:44:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505F4A85.6050403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txuo3abb.fsf@xmission.com>
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 just looked at the archive, and it apparently really comes down to
"noone wants to take responsibility for it". The real problem appears
to be that with devtmpfs device name policy is actually split between
user space and kernel, which is the worst possible configuration.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-23 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-24 0:05 [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-24 0:25 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-24 1:07 ` Al Viro
2012-01-24 18:21 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 20:16 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 20:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 20:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-24 22:02 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 22:54 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-24 23:16 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 23:25 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 23:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 23:27 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-28 19:51 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-28 20:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-28 21:32 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-23 3:47 ` [PATCH 0/4] devpts: " Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] devpts: Remove CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] devpts: Set the default permissions of /dev/pts/ptmx and /dev/ptmx to 0666 Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] devpts: Make the newinstance option historical Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 4:19 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 4:46 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 5:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 6:30 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 6:34 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 7:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:51 ` [PATCH 4/4] devpts: Update the documentation Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 16:48 ` [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-23 17:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-01-24 23:35 ` [RFC] " Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-24 20:55 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 21:19 ` Nick Bowler
2012-01-24 0:26 ` Al Viro
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