Re: ptyfs and chroot environments

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20100401232440.GA12548%panix.com@localhost>,
> Thor Lancelot Simon  <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:58:15PM -0400, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> >> (I am not subscribed to this list, so please cc me in replies.)
> >> 
> >> ptyfs interacts badly with chroot environments.  Since there can be
> >> only one ptyfs mount at any given time, a chroot environment cannot
> >> use ptm(4) to allocate ptys, because it will return /dev/pts/N to the
> >> userland, which does not (and cannot) exist in the chroot environment.
> >
> >I thought /dev/ptmx worked without ptyfs mounted?
> 
> It does.

So, why can't the chrooted environment just use that?

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