Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:26:45 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts |
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On 04/08/2012 03:18 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ok I'm putting my tty maintainers hat on at this point because nobody > seems to be listening > > I'm NAKking this change, I'm NAKking the feature-removal change. > > If you want this to change convince the distributions there is a point in > supporting it. This is the *wrong* forum to force a cornercase feature > onto a bazillion users, and the wrong way to strongarm maintainers of the > relevant user space. > > If udev has a problem handling it nicely because of the way the link is > generated then *fix that problem* so udev automatically gets both cases > right. If need be we can add more messages to udev to tell it what is > expected and what devtmpfs should produce. >
What if it turns out we can make udev/devtmpfs make this happen transparently (which it sounds like it might be possible)? Would you be okay with removing the "implicit bind mount" property of the current devpts then?
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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