Re: [libvirt] [RFC] Create ptmx as a device

Hi, I'm seeing an issue with udev and libvirt-lxc. Libvirt-lxc creates /dev/ptmx as a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx. When udev starts up, it checks the device type, sees ptmx is 'not right', and replaces it with a 'proper' ptmx.

In lxc, /dev/ptmx is bind-mounted from /dev/pts/ptmx instead of being symlinked, so udev sees the right device type and leaves it alone. A patch like the following seems to work for me. Would there be any objections to this? >From 4c5035de52de7e06a0de9c5d0bab8c87a806cba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ubuntu <ubuntu(a)domU-12-31-39-14-F0-B3.compute-1.internal&gt; Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:15:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] make ptmx a bind mount rather than symlink udev on some systems checks the device type of /dev/ptmx, and replaces it if not as expected. The symlink created by libvirt-lxc therefore gets replaced. By creating it as a bind mount, the device type is correct and udev leaves it alone. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn(a)canonical.com&gt; --- src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c index e425328..6991aec 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c @@ -543,18 +543,18 @@ static int lxcContainerPopulateDevices(void) } } + 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 (access("/dev/pts/ptmx", W_OK) == 0) { - if (symlink("/dev/pts/ptmx", "/dev/ptmx") < 0) { - virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", - _("Failed to create symlink /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx")); - return -1; - } - } else { - dev_t dev = makedev(LXC_DEV_MAJ_TTY, LXC_DEV_MIN_PTMX); - if (mknod("/dev/ptmx", S_IFCHR, dev) < 0 || - chmod("/dev/ptmx", 0666)) { + if (mount("/dev/pts/ptmx", "/dev/ptmx", "ptmx", MS_BIND, NULL) < 0) { virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", - _("Failed to make device /dev/ptmx")); + _("Failed to bind-mount /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx")); return -1; } }