Many applications use /dev/tty to read from stdin. E.g. zypper on openSUSE. Let's create this device node to unbreak those applications. As /dev/tty is a synonym for the current controlling terminal it cannot harm the host or any other containers. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard(a)nod.at&gt; --- src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c index 181f6c8..9ab64a1 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c @@ -837,6 +837,7 @@ static int lxcContainerPopulateDevices(char **ttyPaths, size_t nttyPaths) { LXC_DEV_MAJ_MEMORY, LXC_DEV_MIN_FULL, 0666, "/dev/full" }, { LXC_DEV_MAJ_MEMORY, LXC_DEV_MIN_RANDOM, 0666, "/dev/random" }, { LXC_DEV_MAJ_MEMORY, LXC_DEV_MIN_URANDOM, 0666, "/dev/urandom" }, + { LXC_DEV_MAJ_TTY, LXC_DEV_MIN_TTY, 0666, "/tty" }, }; const struct { const char *src; -- 1.8.3