On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:41:11PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > While running Python 3’s test suite, we noticed that on some systems > /dev/pts/ptmx is created with permissions 0 (that’s the case with my > Nixpkgs-originating 3.0.43 kernel, but someone with a Debian-originating > 3.10-3 reported not having this problem.) > > There’s still the problem that people without > CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y are screwed (as noted in build.cc), > but I don’t see how we could work around it. > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’.
Usually it's handled with the devpts special mountable device. The "ptmxmode" variable handles that. Don't you want to mount that in the chroot?
