[lxc-devel] [Not A Patch] [POC] Proof of concept code for using devtmpfs for autodev and more...

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 15:03 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: 
> > Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> > > The only place that's being used is in creating a symlink...
> > > 
> > > /dev/.lxc/$name -> /dev/.lxc/$pathhash
> > > 
> > > I use it for the same reason you wanted the extra bind mounts to
> > > $lxcpath/$lxcname.dev.  In your case, you wanted to see the dev mappings
> > 
> > Oh - gotcha.  Well in that case I'd say just create your own unique
> > $name.$index.  that should be enough info.
> 
> > Oh now unprivileged container creation of course will not be able
> > to do this as I won't be able to create /dev/.lxc/anything as uid
> > 1000.
> 
> Oh, we're going to have to look into that then.  We're doing other
> privileged operations like the bind mounts...  Hmmm...  It may have to

bind mounts are ok.  we can do this in a private mntns.  That's how
I currently get around our inability to mknod in a userns - I
bind mount devices from the host into the container's /dev.

-serge