Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:56:10 -0700 |
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Just replace /dev/ptmx with a pts/ptmx symlink... something that works already.
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:16:22PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> I guess the following: >> - remove the 'ptmx' cdev from drivers/tty/pty.c >> - add a new devtmpfs_create_link() to drivers/base/devtmpfs.c >> - call devtmpfs_create_link() from _init in fs/devpts/inode.c >> - change the default of ptxmode=0 to a sane default = 0666 >> - get rid of the (rather broken) idea of 'legacy' vs 'non-legacy >mode' >> mount options in the default setup; I don't think userspace >should >> ever be required to fiddle with such stuff > >You do realize that there are people with _static_ /dev out there, >don't >you? As well as those of us who are not using your latest and greatest >udev and not enabling devtmpfs at all. Not all world is Fedora...
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