Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior | Date | Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:52:00 -0800 |
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Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> writes:
> Quoting Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org): >> We might also thing about changing /sys/class/tty/ptmx/, and have the >> kernel create the symlink? The loops through userspace to setup >> default kernel stuff are kind of crazy ... >> >> Kay > > Hi Kay, > > sorry, there is something I'm missing here. Without a target kobj > to link to, how would we go about telling the kernel that /dev/ptmx > should be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx? Is there a way to do that?
There is precedent in the /dev/fd symlinks, so I expect you want to look and see where the configuration for that comes from.
Eric
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