Re: [RFC] tty: pty -- Add ability to setup next pty number for ptmx open

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When we restore PTY terminals we do iterate over open() calls to reach
> the index used at checkpoint time (say application opened a number of
> terminals, then closed all other except last one) which of course very
> inconvenient.
>
> The problem get more notable in scope of controlling terminal represented
> by /dev/tty device: current CRIU restore scheme is lazy, we don't open
> files immedeately after the forks but rather defer until the whole
> process tree is created, then every process opens own files in async
> way and in result /dev/tty is not propagated into children because
> it is not yet opened.
>

Gentlemen, ping?