Bug#859003: systemd-container: strange permissions on /dev/pts/ptmx

[Russell Coker]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:00:33 AM Felipe Sateler wrote:
> From the kernel documentation:
> > As an option instead of placing a /dev/ptmx device node at /dev/ptmx
> > it is possible to place a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx at /dev/ptmx or
> > to bind mount /dev/ptx/ptmx to /dev/ptmx.  If you opt for using
> > the devpts filesystem in this manner devpts should be mounted with
> > the ptmxmode=0666, or chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx should be called.
> 
> And indeed nspawn sets up /dev/ptmx as a symlink, while debian host
> does not do that. In the host, /dev/ptmx has 0666 permissions.
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt

Fair point.

So why does systemd-nspawn do things differently than the host in this regard?

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