Quoting Michael H. Warfield (m...@wittsend.com): > On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 06:39 +0800, Alexander Vladimirov wrote: > > It is a separate package in Arch Linux and I dont have it installed on > > the host, as well as in container since everything works well without > > it > > Well, that would explain it. What isn't explained is why we need it.
(see my previous response) > This is the run_makedev() function which is called from setup_autodev() > in src/lxc/setup.c just before it tries to populate the .../dev > directory in the container. There's some comments in there about making > sure the /dev/vcs* entries are created. Right. > It's also not clear to me if it's even doing what it perports to do. It > changes to the dev directory and then runs /sbin/MAKEDEV (without > checking if it even exists) Right, that should be fixed, > without a parameter (-d) for the target > directory which would seem to me to cause MAKEDEV to attempt to create At least my copy of makedev creates the devices in $cwd. If adding -d is needed for other distros, of course I have 0 objections. > the devices in the host /dev and not the container .../dev directory at > all. That actually appears consistent with the behavior I'm seeing. If > I reboot the host system, all those tty devices do not exist in the host ? In the host /dev, or in the /var/lib/lxc/$container/rootfs/dev? If the former, I don't see what the container to do to affect the host's boot sequence. > until after I fire up a container with autodev enabled. Then they > appear in the host /dev which is not the correct behavior. No it's not. > I don't think we should be doing this but this is part of the earlier > autodev patches Serge did for systemd that went into 9.0.0.a1. Maybe > it's a difference in behavior between MAKEDEV on Ubuntu vs MAKEDEV on > Fedora (et al) and not even guaranteed to exist. Sounds like it. > Serge? -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel
