Bug#841935: pbuilder: incorrect permissions on /dev/ptmx breaks openpty()

[Thorsten Glaser]

Simon McVittie dixit:

[… long explanations plus this…]
>Perhaps bind-mounting the host's /dev/pts and also the host's /dev/ptmx
>would work? I'll try that.

Thank you for helping working on it.

>On Sun, 05 Mar 2017 at 22:43:53 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> I’d also be seriously annoyed if my C hook running a shell if the
>> build failed would stop working.
>
>Then you will be seriously annoyed as soon as you upgrade to a stretch
>kernel.

I’m running sid ;) With chroots from sarge up to sid.

Thankfully, with “old and then upgraded” chroots, I have the
proper device node instead of the symlink and have, so far,
not seen any problems. (Manual package cleanup aside.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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