Re: [PATCH 0/1] devpts: use dynamic_dname() to generate proc name

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Aug 23 2017 - 11:32:22 EST


Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Christian Brauner
>> <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> And Christian, if you can beat on this, that would be good.
>>>
>>> Yes, I can pound on this nicely with liblxc. We have patch
>>> ( https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/1728 ) up for review that
>>> allocates pty fds from private devpts mounts in different namespaces
>>> and sends those fds around between different namespaces.
>>
>> Good. Testing that this works with different pts filesystems in
>> different places is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to see. I only
>> tested with my single pts filesystem that is mounted at /dev/pts, and
>> making sure it works when there are multiple mounts and in different
>> places is exactly the kind of testing this should get.
>
> I'm compiling a kernel now and depending on how good the in-flight
> wifi is I try to test this right away and answer here if that helps. If the
> in-flight wifi sucks it might take me until tomorrow.

Linus has merged the fix but have you been able to test and verify all
is well from your side?

Eric