Subject: Re: [vserver] vxW: did lookup hidden devpts
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:52:10 +0100

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:07:44PM +0100, Sebastien Bonnegent wrote:
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> Hi,

> I have this lines in my syslog:

> [ 3872.477649] vxW: [???ps???,23026:#1|0|0] did lookup hidden devpts:f55dd500[#0,2]
???/dev/pts???.
> [ 4172.175854] vxW: [???ps???,23291:#1|0|0] did lookup hidden devpts:f55dd500[#0,2]
???/dev/pts???.
> [ 4472.844371] vxW: [???ps???,23570:#1|0|0] did lookup hidden devpts:f55dd500[#0,2]
???/dev/pts???.

> Do you know what is it ?

yes, those are warning messages, which tell you that a
process (ps, pid 23026,23291,23570) inside a context (#1)
did lookup a pty/pts, which belongs to a different context
(in this case #0, the host context)

HTC,
Herbert

> # uname -r
> 2.6.28.7-vs2.3.0.36.8-090326

> # grep VSERVER /boot/config-2.6.28.7-vs2.3.0.36.8-090326
> CONFIG_VSERVER_AUTO_LBACK=y
> CONFIG_VSERVER_AUTO_SINGLE=y
> CONFIG_VSERVER_COWBL=y
> # CONFIG_VSERVER_VTIME is not set
> # CONFIG_VSERVER_DEVICE is not set
> CONFIG_VSERVER_PROC_SECURE=y
> CONFIG_VSERVER_HARDCPU=y
> CONFIG_VSERVER_IDLETIME=y
> # CONFIG_VSERVER_IDLELIMIT is not set
> CONFIG_VSERVER_PRIVACY=y
> CONFIG_VSERVER_CONTEXTS=256
> CONFIG_VSERVER_WARN=y
> # CONFIG_VSERVER_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_VSERVER=y
> CONFIG_VSERVER_SECURITY=y
> 
> 
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