[Devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11][v3]: Enable multiple instances of devpts

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Sep 5 05:27:10 PDT 2008


> Does presence of /dev/pts/ptmx in single-instance case break userspace ?

It changes the permssion rules and subverts any permissions and security
labels applied to the current node.

If it was there and defaulted to no permission I doubt anything would
care - ie presence is not the problem, rights management is.

Alan
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