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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/13] devpts: Teach /dev/ptmx to find the associated devpts via path lookup
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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:
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    >>
    >> 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?
    --
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