Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:25:02 -0800 | From | Sukadev Bhattiprolu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior |
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Serge Hallyn [serge.hallyn@canonical.com] wrote: | | That has nothing to do with /dev/pts/ptmx, whose perms are set based on | the '-o ptmxmode=" argument, and default to 000 if not specified. If | /dev/ptmx is going to be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx, then we have to set | the /dev/pts/ptmx perms to not be 000, or users won't be able to create | ptys.
If we are going to make 'newinstance' the default, maybe the default ptmx mode could be changed to 0666 in the kernel too ?
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