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    SubjectRe: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior
    On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 04:13:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Serge Hallyn
    > <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > I've been playing for the last week with ways to fix this, and in the
    > > end I can see two ways.
    >
    > How about a third way:
    >
    > - make "newinstance" mandatory (and "-o newinstance" is a no-op) and
    > forget about the whole issue.
    >
    > - if you really want to remount the old global one, you have to use a
    > bind mount of that original mount instead.
    >
    > There may be some subtle reason why the above is totally broken and
    > just fundamnetally wouldn't work, and breaks all existing setups, but
    > maybe it's worth at least discussing as an option?

    Hell knows... That's certainly what I would have prefered, but I wonder
    about existing practices along the lines of "mount it in chroot jail
    from inside that jail" (as opposed to mount --bind /dev/pts /jail/dev/pts
    while preparing it).

    Posted patch is too ugly to live and as for the new kind of namespace...
    yuck. We already have far too many :-/


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