On fre, 2015-03-27 at 10:03 +0100, James Bottomley 
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > > It's currently impossible to mount devpts in a user namespace that
> > > has no root user, since ptmx can't be created.
> 
> This is where I stopped reading because it's not true ... because it is
> possible, you just do it from the host as real root.

The point is being able to set up a container as a user, not requiring
the setup to be run as root at all. In my case container is a desktop
application which will be started by the user, and will run as the user.
There is no root involved in the call chain at all.

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