Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/13] devpts: Teach /dev/ptmx to find the associated devpts via path lookup | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:48:28 -0700 |
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On April 9, 2016 6:27:36 PM PDT, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >On Apr 9, 2016 5:45 PM, "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: >> >> >> What we *do* want to do, though, is to prevent the following: > >I don't see the point. Why do you bring up this insane scenario that >nobody >can possibly care about? > >So you actually have any reason to believe somebody does that? > >I already asked about that earlier, and the silence was deafening. > > Linus
Here is an entire different approach, I don't know if it is sane or not: when *mounting* the devpts filesystem, it could automagically create the bins mount for ptmx in the parent of its mount point. Presumably the would be a mount option to disable that behavior.
Does anyone see an obvious problem with that? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting.
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