[PATCH 0/7][v2] Cloning PTS namespace

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Pavel Emelyanov (xemul at openvz.org):
> sukadev at us.ibm.com wrote:
> > Devpts namespace patchset
> > 
> > In continuation of the implementation of containers in mainline, we need to
> > support multiple PTY namespaces so that the PTY index (ie the tty names) in
> > one container is independent of the PTY indices of other containers.  For
> > instance this would allow each container to have a '/dev/pts/0' PTY and
> > refer to different terminals.
> > 
> > 	[PATCH 1/7]: Propagate error code from devpts_pty_new
> > 	[PATCH 2/7]: Factor out PTY index allocation
> > 	[PATCH 3/7]: Enable multiple mounts of /dev/pts
> > 	[PATCH 4/7]: Implement get_pts_ns() and put_pts_ns()
> > 	[PATCH 5/7]: Determine pts_ns from a pty's inode.
> > 	[PATCH 6/7]: Check for user-space mount of /dev/pts
> > 	[PATCH 7/7]: Enable cloning PTY namespaces
> > 
> > Todo:
> > 	- This patchset depends on availability of additional clone flags.
> > 	  and relies on on Cedric's clone64 patchset.
> 
> But this set was not even reviewed, wasn't it?

Well it was sent out!  :)  Last time was Feb 11.  There'd been no
responses so while Cedric has been maintaining it, I suspect he
hasn't wanted to gratuitously spam the list with countless resends.

> Does anybody
> know what are the plans about exhausted flags?

hopefully "go with clone64/unshare64"  :)

-serge