Re: [PATCH] devpts: Sensible /dev/ptmx & force newinstance

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What actually breaks is "echo NNN > /proc/sys/kernel/pty/reserve"
> Which allows the primary instance of devpts to have access to more
> ptys than any other instance.

Ok. We'll probably need to fix that similarly (make it look up
/dev/pts to figure out *which* pty reserve to fix), but I think that's
entirely separate from the ptmx issue for now.

                 Linus
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