From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; An earlier commit dropped support for using LXC with kernels having single-instance devpts filesystem from the LXC controller. It forgot to remove the same code from the LXC container setup. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 25 +++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c index c74e3ca..181f6c8 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c @@ -869,25 +869,14 @@ static int lxcContainerPopulateDevices(char **ttyPaths, size_t nttyPaths) } } - if (access("/dev/pts/ptmx", W_OK) == 0) { - /* We have private devpts capability, so bind that */ - if (virFileTouch("/dev/ptmx", 0666) < 0) - return -1; + /* We have private devpts capability, so bind that */ + if (virFileTouch("/dev/ptmx", 0666) < 0) + return -1; - if (mount("/dev/pts/ptmx", "/dev/ptmx", "ptmx", MS_BIND, NULL) < 0) { - virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", - _("Failed to bind /dev/pts/ptmx on to /dev/ptmx")); - return -1; - } - } else { - /* Legacy devpts, so we need to just use shared one */ - dev_t dev = makedev(LXC_DEV_MAJ_TTY, LXC_DEV_MIN_PTMX); - if (mknod("/dev/ptmx", S_IFCHR, dev) < 0 || - chmod("/dev/ptmx", 0666)) { - virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", - _("Failed to make device /dev/ptmx")); - return -1; - } + if (mount("/dev/pts/ptmx", "/dev/ptmx", "ptmx", MS_BIND, NULL) < 0) { + virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", + _("Failed to bind /dev/pts/ptmx on to /dev/ptmx")); + return -1; } for (i = 0; i < nttyPaths; i++) { -- 1.8.1.4