[systemd-devel] Mounting /dev/pts

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/1/4 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
>> On Tue, 04.01.11 00:24, Wulf C. Krueger (philantrop at exherbo.org) wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> currently, /dev/pts is mounted without the usual options by systemd.
>>
>> Normally, additional parameters listed in /etc/fstab should be applied
>> on boot with remount-api-vfs.service unit. However, there seems to be a
>> bug right now and this is not done properly.
>
> On Debian and Ubuntu /dev/pts is mounted with noexec,nosuid,gid=tty,mode=0620.
>
> In Debian it is done via the mountdevsubfs sysv init script, in Ubuntu
> it is done by mountall.
> On both systems /dev/pts is *not* defined in /etc/fstab.
>
> I guess Wulf's point isn't, that options in /etc/fstab are not applied
> but rather that systemd should mount /dev/pts with those options.
>

I would very much prefer systemd to respect .mount unit also for API
filesystems - or is it already the case? This would allow distro to
supply proper options without need to change existing setup for
non-systemd case (i.e. mounting /dev/pts in boot script with fixed
options).