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

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Message-ID: <20120124211935.GA21252@elliptictech.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:35 -0500
From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior

On 2012-01-24 12:55 -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Linus Torvalds [torvalds@...ux-foundation.org] wrote:
[...]
> | If you can test a few distros and at least validate that the approach
> | isn't *totally* broken, I'll apply it. It's early days in the -rc
> | series yet, and this does seem to be one of those things that we'd be
> | better off trying to do early rather than delay.
> 
> Yes, hopefully the new distros can cope with 'newinstance' as the default
> and ones that can't can live with CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=n.

What about people who chroot into an "old" distro from a "new" livecd?

Cheers,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

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