On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:00:35AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: > > Case 1: You have /dev/pts mounted outside the chroot and want to use > > e.g. sshd inside the chroot. > > in this case, there is no "correct" pathname anyway, right? > i think it's more appropriate to return an error so that an application > can fall back to eg. dev.db.
If the PTSNAME ioctl fails, you don't gain anything. The problem here is that the old code returned /%d for the chroot in all cases -- making it impossible to use ptyfs if you also wanted to use e.g. sshd in a chroot. Without that logic you can null mount /dev/pts and it magically works. Joerg
