Re: Enhance ptyfs to handle multiple instances.

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:51:12AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> I don't think that putting ptmx inside devpts makes sense. OTOH, we
> could have multiple ptmx devices with different minor numbers and use that
> as the differentiating factor for the pty devices. I think that's too complex
> and probably not worth it (at least in the first pass).

Actually, it would simplify things a lot if /dev/ptmx was a symlink to
/dev/pts/ptmx. The ptyfs instance could assign a unique minor number per
instance and use that to associate the instance with the correct mount
point.

Joerg