Re: ptyfs and chroot environments

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost (Taylor R Campbell) writes:

>I can work around this by unmounting ptyfs, and that's what I'll do
>for now.  Are there any other ways around this?

You could just create /dev/pty[pqrs]XX and /dev/tty[pqrs]XX inside
the chroot. It even has one advantage, you can limit how many
PTYs can be used inside the chroot.

> Is there a danger to
>having multiple ptyfs mounts, or could the ptyfs code be adapted to
>support this?

ptyfs code would need to be changed.

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