[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#584742: must create /dev/{pts, shm}/ by itself

[Ferenc Wagner]

md at Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> On Jun 06, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
>
>> md at Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>>
>>> I also highly doubt that there is still any point in trying to
>>> create /dev/ptmx.
>>
>> I do not know ptmx, so I do not know what it is used for.
>
> It is the master device for the /dev/pts/ devices, but nowadays it is
> either created by udev or already present in the existing static /dev.

According to Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt in the Linux kernel
tree, we really should abandon the "legacy" mode of devpts, and switch
to using -o newinstance to make full isolation of containers possible.
Or do I misread it?
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Regards,
Feri.