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From: "Lluís Batlle i Rossell" <viric@viric.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, nix-dev@cs.uu.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure /dev/pts/ptmx is world-writable
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:53:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140403065303.GA8658@cubata.homelinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sipvflzc.fsf@gnu.org>

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?
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-03  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02 21:41 [PATCH] Make sure /dev/pts/ptmx is world-writable Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-03  6:53 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell [this message]
2014-04-03  7:28   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-03  7:31   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-03 10:38     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell

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