The lxc driver xml parser treats the console element as input when it should be output only. This obviously causes problems when anything other than /dev/ptmx is specified or when a container is shutdown and then restarted without redefining it (so that the console field is reset). This patch treats the console element as output only and always creates a new device when starting a container. Also fixed up a string overflow when storing the device name.

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:29:04AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:59:34PM -0700, Dave Leskovec wrote: >> The lxc driver xml parser treats the console element as input when it should be >> output only. This obviously causes problems when anything other than /dev/ptmx >> is specified or when a container is shutdown and then restarted without >> redefining it (so that the console field is reset). This patch treats the >> console element as output only and always creates a new device when starting a >> container. Also fixed up a string overflow when storing the device name. > Yes, this is good. When using PTY's this is definitely output-only. No one > should be using the ancient manually allocated pre-Unix98 TTYs. I'd not come > across posix_openpt() before though - I'm used to openpty(). Since this is > a Linux specific driver though, there's no portability issues to worry about > so I'm happy with either. Fine by me too, +1 Daniel