Re: RFC: deprecating/removing the legacy mode of devpts

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Apr 08 2012 - 18:44:16 EST


> What if it turns out we can make udev/devtmpfs make this happen
> transparently (which it sounds like it might be possible)? Would you be
> okay with removing the "implicit bind mount" property of the current
> devpts then?

Once we get to the point where it "just works" I'm quite happy for that
to happen unless it turns out there's any large code size/performance
hits in having the feature always on. I don't see any.

Alan
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