Re: Enhance ptyfs to handle multiple instances.

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20140314143532.GA17867%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>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.

Yes, except that ptmx is supposed to work without ptyfs, but I guess that
nobody uses it this way anymore.

christos