Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:42:32 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> On 09/22/2012 08:47 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Making /dev/ptmx a symlink sounds simple, but in practice no one could >> actually figure out how to make it happen. > > This feels particularly ridiculous since udev now requires devtmpfs > (as in it will no longer work without it), which means this is all > done in the kernel, so we should just be able to fix this in the > kernel.
Some versions of udev require devtmpfs. At best we could have something conditional in the kernel that does this.
> Greg, Kay, any idea how to make ptmx show up in devtmpfs as a symlink > to pts/pmtx instead of as a device node?
The conversation stalled in January with that very question.
What I am proposing doesn't conflict with any effort like that.
Eric
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