Bug#841935: Bug#817236: schroot: no access to pseudo-terminals in new chroots

[Mattia Rizzolo]

reassign 817236 debootstrap 1.0.85
reassign 841935 debootstrap
forcemerge 817236 841935
affects 817236 pbuilder sbuild schroot
stop

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 08:03:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> (2016-11-07):
> > On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:02:14 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org>
> > > debootstrap recently replaced the /dev/ptmx device node with a symlink
> > > /dev/ptmx -> pts/ptmx[1]. This changed the default permissions from
> > > world-writable (0666) for /dev/ptmx to no-access (0000) in chroots[2].
> > 
> > This is not needed at all from Linux 4.7.  The open operation on
> > /dev/ptmx automatically looks up the sibling pts/ directory.  (Also,
> > every mount of devpts is a 'new instance'.)
> > 
> > It seems to me that the change in debootstrap ought to be reverted, as
> > it will not be needed in future and it is causing problems for existing
> > configurations.
> 
> Adding Marco to the loop.

In the meantime, properly reassigning/merging these bugs.

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