Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:30:05 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Multiple instances of devpts |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Thinking about it further, allowing this restriction would also allow a > whole lot of cleanups inside the pty setup, since it would eliminate the > need to do a separate lookup to find the corresponding devpts entry in > pty_open(). The benefit here comes from the closer coupling between the > pty and the devpts filesystem and isn't at all related to namespaces, > but it's a very nice side benefit. >
Minor correction: the lookup is actually in init_dev() in tty_io.c; I'm specifically referring to devpts_get_tty().
-hpa
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