linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:35:19 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> writes:

>> For testing I would recommend looking at the distro chroot build cases.
>
> Do you have a specific example in mind?  I would expect build chroots
> generally don't mount a devpts.

I was thinking of mock on fedora.  I think other distros have something
similar.   mock is sufficient to test programs in so it probably has
a /dev/pts somewhere.  Mostly though I was trying to think of cases
where this would matter.

Eric
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