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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Apr 08 2012 - 18:46:09 EST


On 04/08/2012 03:46 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> 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.
>

No, it's actually the other way around... it lets us take some pretty
nice shortcuts.

-hpa


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