From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.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 10:42:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txuo3abb.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505F3D48.7080103@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:48:08 -0700")
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> On 09/22/2012 08:47 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Making /dev/ptmx a symlink sounds simple, but in practice no one could
>> actually figure out how to make it happen.
>
> This feels particularly ridiculous since udev now requires devtmpfs
> (as in it will no longer work without it), which means this is all
> done in the kernel, so we should just be able to fix this in the
> kernel.
Some versions of udev require devtmpfs. At best we could have something
conditional in the kernel that does this.
> 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.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-23 17:42 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 [this message]
2012-09-23 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
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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