Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior

From: Nick Bowler
Date: Tue Jan 24 2012 - 16:19:37 EST


On 2012-01-24 12:55 -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Linus Torvalds [torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
[...]
> | If you can test a few distros and at least validate that the approach
> | isn't *totally* broken, I'll apply it. It's early days in the -rc
> | series yet, and this does seem to be one of those things that we'd be
> | better off trying to do early rather than delay.
>
> Yes, hopefully the new distros can cope with 'newinstance' as the default
> and ones that can't can live with CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=n.

What about people who chroot into an "old" distro from a "new" livecd?

Cheers,
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

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