linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] devpts: Removing the need for pt

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Message-ID: <20160506193547.GA30024@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 May 2016 15:35:47 -0400
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, security@...ian.org,
	"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"security@...ntu.com >> security" <security@...ntu.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>,
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	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] devpts: Removing the need for pt_chown

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:04:12PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Could you please apply the following patch to tty-next so it can be
> merged into 4.7-rc1.
> 
> We have had a long series of discussions and in the last iteration we
> finally converged on a set of semantics that does not break userspace
> and also makes the code simpler.

Did everyone agree?  I didn't think so, but the thread got long and
messy.  And then Linus did some work on this as well.

How does this play with what Linus proposed?  I think only portions of
his original changes are merged, and there are still outstanding parts,
right?

totally confused,

greg k-h